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A younger Iranian couple, who went viral in November 2022 for a video of them dancing within the streets in Tehran, has been sentenced to 10 and half years in jail.
The engaged couple, Astiyazh Haghighi, 21 and Amir Mohammed Ahmad, 22, had been every convicted of encouraging corruption and threatening nationwide safety, based on the activist HRANA news company.
Their sentencing gained consideration worldwide thanks partly to a Vancouver-based group, Iranian Knowledge.
The research-based training nonpartisan interprets news from Farsi to English and creates video content material to unfold the data.
They even have created a searchable database on political prisoners within the hopes of pairing them up with a political sponsor.
The group plans on publicly itemizing Islamic republic judges concerned within the sentencing of demonstrators. This is all in an effort to lift consciousness and push governments all over the world to react.
Farid Najafi, one of many founders of Iranian Knowledge stated the couple, bloggers based mostly out of Tehran, “were arrested and violently beaten up.
“This has obviously caused an uproar around the world, including with the Iranian community. There was a fellow who beheaded his wife and only got eight years but this couple, for simply dancing in the street, got 10 and a half years,” Najafi stated.
Another troubling case, additionally on the radar of Iranian Knowledge, is that of Shahla Abdi.
Abdi, a lady in her early 20s, is reportedly set to be executed alongside together with her unborn child. She’s 4 months pregnant.
“Whenever you think this is as outrageous as it can get, the Islamic Republic manages to surprise you,” Najafi added.
According to the Islamic Republic judiciary, Abdi set hearth to a portrait of the founding father of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini…a criminal offense punishable by dying.
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Nearly 40 years in the past, Port Coquitlam girl Mahbubeh Mojtahed, was seven months pregnant when she and her husband, who was executed in 1988, had been imprisoned on the infamous Evin Prison. Her son was born and raised in jail for nearly two years. Her husband was a journalist they usually had been each political activists towards the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979.
“My heart is beating for her. I think about her (Shahla) every single moment,” stated Mahbubeh.
Mahbubeh stated she pertains to Abdi and understands how she have to be feeling proper now. She is now advocating for her launch.
Mahbubeh was tortured and gave delivery in jail. Mahbubeh stated the situations had been so dangerous contained in the jail that she typically must sleep sitting up when she was pregnant as a result of there was no room for her to lie down.
The horrific news of Abdi’s reported imminent execution is taking her again to when she was pregnant and imprisoned.
“When it was released on social media I immediately had flashbacks to the situation I was in when I didn’t know what was going to happen to my life.”
Ultimately being pregnant is what spared Mahbubeh from execution.
“How dare they (the Islamic Republic) do that to an innocent child…a child not yet born,” stated Mahbubeh.
Iranian Knowledge is at the moment trying to find a Canadian MP to sponsor Abdi within the hopes that will assist save her and the child’s life.
As the Islamic Republic intensifies its crackdown, Canadians are doing what they will to amplify the voices of its most dedicated opponents.
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