Revolutionary Court Sentences Narges Mohammadi to Seven Years
Mashhad court sentenced Mohammadi to six years for 'gathering and collusion', 1.5 years for propaganda, a two-year travel ban and two years' internal exile.
Overview
Mostafa Nili, Mohammadi's lawyer, said a Revolutionary Court in Mashhad sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years for "gathering and collusion" and 1.5 years for propaganda and ordered a two-year travel ban and two years' internal exile to Khosf.
Supporters and the Narges Foundation said Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Feb. 2 and was transferred to hospital three days before being returned to the Ministry of Intelligence detention center in Mashhad, raising urgent concerns about her health.
Iranian authorities did not immediately acknowledge the Mashhad verdict, and Mostafa Nili confirmed the sentence on X while urging that she be temporarily released on bail to receive treatment, his posts and supporters said.
Mohammadi, 53, has already served more than 10 years in prison and was serving a 13-year, nine-month sentence, and the Narges Foundation said the latest rulings bring her total ordered prison time to 44 years.
Mostafa Nili said the verdict is not final and can be appealed, and supporters and rights groups warned that her continued detention could become a focus of international diplomatic pressure and calls for medical release.
Analysis
Center-leaning sources frame Mohammadi’s case as primarily a human-rights story emphasizing state repression and personal suffering. They foreground sympathetic details (health, hunger strike, eyewitness beatings), critique Iranian courts and security forces, and juxtapose domestic repression with Tehran’s external defiance, while giving limited weight to official legal justifications.
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FAQ
The latest rulings bring her total ordered prison time to 44 years, including her previous 13-year, nine-month sentence and over 10 years already served.
Six years for 'gathering and collusion', 1.5 years for propaganda, a two-year travel ban, and two years' internal exile to Khosf.
She began a hunger strike on February 2, was transferred to hospital three days before being returned to the Ministry of Intelligence detention center in Mashhad, raising urgent health concerns.
The verdict is not final and can be appealed; her lawyer Mostafa Nili urged temporary release on bail for medical treatment.
She was violently arrested on December 12, 2025, at a memorial ceremony for slain human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi, along with other activists.
History
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