Mousavi campaigner Asal Esmailzadeh given one-year jail term
GVF — Another campaigner for 2009 presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has been sentenced to prison, according to opposition website Saham news.
Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced Asal Esmailzadeh, a young activist who supported Mousavi’s campaign during the rigged elections of June 2009 to four months in prison in combination with a suspended eight-month jail term.
According to a report by the Human Rights Activists news agency, Esmailzadeh has been detained a number of times in the past two years. Her most recent arrest was on 1 May 2011, when she was arrested by plain-clothed militias while returning home. She was finally released on a bail of around $90,000 after 31 days of solitary confinement.
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