{"id":500,"date":"2014-03-05T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=500"},"modified":"2014-03-05T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:31:14","slug":"iran-student-activist-given-seven-year-prison-term-in-continuing-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Student activist given seven year prison term in continuing crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/photo\/\/2011\/m\/maryam.shafie.pour.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"143\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryam Shafi\u2019 Pour<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amnesty international- 3 March 2014 &#8211; Iran\u2019s authorities must quash the conviction of a 27-year-old student who received a seven year prison sentence because of her peaceful political activities, said Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Maryam Shafi\u2019 Pour had been a member of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi\u2019s presidential campaign during the 2009 elections.<br \/>\n\u201cThat a student could be jailed for seven years merely for peacefully expressing her views or supporting an opposition politician defies belief. Maryam Shafi\u2019 Pour should be immediately and unconditionally released and allowed to continue her studies. She should not spend the next seven years languishing in Evin Prison,\u201d said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International.<br \/>\nEarlier the student had been barred by the authorities from completing her university education because of her political activism at university. Many other students are still denied the right to pursue their education because of their peaceful human rights or political activism.<br \/>\nDuring a wave of protests that followed Iran\u2019s 2009 elections scores of students were arrested and faced vaguely worded charges on national security grounds, in a clampdown on dissent. \u00a0Maryam Shafi\u2019 Pour is the first student arrested on such charges since President Hassan Rouhani came to power last year.<br \/>\n\u201cMaryam Shafi\u2019 Pour\u2019s conviction is a chilling reminder of how little Iran\u2019s human rights record has changed since 2009, when students were arrested in droves during post-election unrest,\u201d said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.<br \/>\n\u201cIran will be at the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council at the end of March rejecting any criticism of its human rights record but, as long as people like Maryam Shafi\u2019 Pour are sent to prison, this will be little more than rhetoric and business as usual for the Iranian authorities.\u201d<br \/>\nMaryam Shafi\u2019 Pour was arrested on 27 July 2013 after obeying a summons to appear before the Prosecutor\u2019s Office at Evin Prison in Tehran. After her arrest she spent over two months in solitary confinement, with no access to a lawyer. On 2 March 2014, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran found her guilty of \u201cspreading propaganda against the system\u201d, \u201cassembly and collusion against national security\u201d, and \u201cmembership of the Advocacy Council for the Right to Education\u201d which is not officially recognized by the Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty international- 3 March 2014 &#8211; Iran\u2019s authorities must quash the conviction of a 27-year-old student who received a seven year prison sentence because of her peaceful political activities, said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[70,96],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-amnesty-international","tag-maryam-shafi-pour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}