Iranian journalist jailed for six years

Wed 20 April 2011 06:26 GMT | 11:26 Local Time

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Nazanin Khosravani

Iranian journalist Nazanin Khosravani has been sentenced to six years in prison at a preliminary hearing in Iran's Revolutionary Court.

Kaleme website quotes her lawyer, Farideh Gheirat, saying the journalist was charged with "assembly and collusion for activities against national security and propaganda against the regime".

Khosravani will appeal against the sentence in the appellate court.

She was arrested in November 2009 after her computer and personal belongings were confiscated in a raid. She was released last March after 132 days in jail on a $600,000 bail.

Khosravani formerly contributed to several reformist newspapers such as Bahar, Sarmayeh and Kargozaran, which are all currently banned.

Following the controversial presidential election results of 2009, which were challenged by the now-detained opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, dozens of journalists were arrested and several newspapers banned.

Many journalists have been sentenced to harsh prison terms by the Islamic Republic judiciary in the past year.

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