Photogrpaher Soheil Arabi, 30,
was sentenced to death on 30 August 2014 for “insulting the Prophet of
Islam” (Sabbo al-Nabbi) by a five-judge panel of Branch 76 of the
Criminal Court of Tehran: three of the judges ruled in favour of the death
penalty. The charge stems from postings Soheil Arabi made on eight Facebook
accounts, which the authorities said belong to Soheil Arabi. The Supreme
Court upheld the sentence on 24 November. In a separate case stemming from
the same Facebook posts, Soheil Arabi was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
for “spreading propaganda against the system” and “insulting the leader”,
by a Tehran Revolutionary Court on 4 September.
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