Iran sentenced a French-Iranian academic to six years in prison Saturday on national security and propaganda charges.
May 16 (UPI) — Iran sentenced a French-Iranian academic to six years in prison Saturday on national security and propaganda charges.
Fariba Adelkhah,61, an anthropologist and researcher at Sciences Po university in Paris who specializes in Shiite Islam, has been detained since June at Evin jail, north of Tehran.
Initially, authorities charged her with spying, but those changes were dropped in January while she remained in custody on other charges.
Adelkhah was sentenced Saturday to five years in prison for „colluding with the aim of breaching national security,“ along with one more year in prison for „propaganda against the system.
