Brother and sister sentenced to 5 years of prison for having relatives in Ashraf
June 3, 2010 - Shabnam and Farzad Madadzadeh were each sentenced to 5 years of prison to be served in a prison outside their home town. After protesting Shabnam’s five year prison term to be served in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj, and the five year prison term with the same conditions for her brother which was issued by the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court, the 54th branch of the Tehran Court of Review confirmed this sentence with the exact conditions.
Shabnam Madadzadeh, the assistant secretary of the Tehran Office for Consolidating Unity and a member of the Central Council of the Tehran Teacher Training University’s Islamic Association who was arrested on February 20, 2009 on charges of acting against national security was tried on January 26, 2010 on charges of having links to the PMOI. This student activist was kept in a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for more than 70 days and was under severe physical and psychological torture along with her brother to force them into false confessions. They never gave in to these pressures.
Her interrogators constantly told her that she was arrested because of her family and that she had to pay back for their actions. In the court ruling, this brother and sister were convicted because of family issues which lacks legal credibility.
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