A human rights organization reported that the judiciary of Iran’s regime sentenced the accused in the “Evin Prison fire” case to a total of “265 years” in prison and “over 5,000 lashes.”
The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Monday, June 24, that Branch 1148 of the Tehran Criminal Court sentenced 40 defendants in the 2022 Evin Prison fire case to “imprisonment, lashes, and blood money.”
These prisoners, who faced charges following the Evin Prison fire on the night of October 15, 2022, are currently serving sentences related to previous cases in Greater Tehran and Ghezel Hesar prisons.
The fire at Evin Prison occurred amid heightened tensions in the prison in Tehran during the nationwide protests of 2022. During this fire, sounds of gunfire and explosions were heard, resulting in several prisoners being injured and killed.
According to this report, the 40 defendants faced charges including “destruction of property, disrupting prison order, defiance and disobedience of officials’ orders, and manslaughter.” For these charges, they were collectively sentenced to “265 years of imprisonment, 5,032 lashes, blood money, and expulsion from Iran.”
This human rights organization detailed the court verdict from June 18, stating that the defendants “Majid Roshan-Nejad, Loqman Amin-Pour, Meysam Dehban-Zadeh, Sina Mirzaei, Mohammad Sobhan Moazen-Zadeh, Ayoub Emami-Zadeh, Ahmad Reza Kounani, Sasan Zamani, Mohammad Garavand, Saeed Khodapour, and Alireza Vali” were each sentenced for “property destruction” to “six years in prison and 74 lashes,” for “disrupting prison order” to “16 months in prison and 74 lashes,” and for “defiance and disobedience of officials’ orders” to “16 months in prison.”
Additionally, “Mohammad Hossein Moradian, Masoud Hossein-Zadeh, Reza Haji, Nima Mohammadi, Alireza Eslami, Amir Hossein Yusefvand, Meysam Moradian, Sobhan Hayat-Pour, Reza Salman-Zadeh, and Mohammad Hossein Mousavi” were each sentenced to “five years in prison and 74 lashes,” for “destruction of property,” “one year in prison and 74 lashes” for “disrupting prison order,” and “one year in prison.” for “defiance and disobedience of officials’ orders.”
Furthermore, two other defendants in this case, “Nima Mohammadi and Alireza Eslami,” whose citizenship status is not specified in the report, were additionally sentenced to “expulsion from Iran.”
According to a previous HRANA report, the judge rejected the lawyers of these defendants and, during the court session on June 18, expelled Ramin Safarnia, the lawyer who represented several of the defendants, from the courtroom, opting only to accept written defenses from the defendants.
