An Iranian court sentenced the French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah to a potential sentence of six years in prison for alleged breaches of national security and for fostering anti-Iranian propaganda, her lawyer said Saturday.
An Iranian court sentenced the French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah to a potential sentence of six years in prison for alleged breaches of national security and for fostering anti-Iranian propaganda, her lawyer said Saturday.
Adelkhah, who has been detained in Iran since June 2019, vowed to appeal, her lawyer, Saeid Dehghan, said in a statement posted on Twitter. Dehghan told the Reuters news agency that Adelkhah had been given a five-year sentence for “gathering and conspiring against Iran’s national security” and an additional one-year sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
The French government blasted Iran’s charges against Adelkhah, a social anthropologist with a particular expertise in Iranian culture, as groundless and politically motivated.
