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\nNCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime last week flogged five activists in a prison north of Iran for demanding the release of political prisoners.<\/p>\n
The five men, identified as Amir Amini, Morteza Parvin, Maysam Jolani, Saleh Peachganlou, and Mostafa Parvin, were flogged on April 6 in a prison in Ardebil.<\/p>\n
They had been charged with raising a placard during a soccer match that called for the release of political prisoners in Iran.<\/p>\n
The regime’s court in Ardebil condemned each of these activists in November 2015 to three months\u2019 imprisonment and 30 lashes for raising the placard in a soccer match between Ardebil and Hormozgan teams which read \u201cAbbas Lesani and political prisoners must be freed.\u201d The verdict was upheld by the regime’s Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n
On March 25, 2015, Abbas Lesani, an activist, was condemned to one year of imprisonment for \u201cpropaganda\u201d against the regime. He is currently serving his sentence in Shiraz Prison, southern Iran.<\/p>\n
The mullahs\u2019 regime continues to carry out barbaric punishments including hangings, torture, flogging, amputation of limbs, eye gouging, and stoning to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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