Saeed Madani, a social researcher, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Saeed Madani, a social researcher and national-religious activist, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for the charge of propaganda against the Islamic Republic regime and to 1 year for what has been described as forming and managing anti-regime groups, totaling 9 years of imprisonment.
According to reports, Mr. Madani, who was arrested last November amid the nationwide protests following the death of Mahsa Amini after being detained by the morality police, has been held in the security ward 209 of Evin Prison and is now serving his sentence in ward 4 of Evin Prison.
This social researcher was also arrested once before in 2011 and, after being held for two years, was sentenced in 2013 to 6 years in prison in Bandar Abbas.
He was previously arrested in 1994 when he was the editor of Iran-e Farda magazine and again in 2000 on charges of collaborating with the National Religious Activists’ Council.