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Iranian rights activist slams ‘illegal’ process that led to her 8-year sentence and 74 lashes
Iranian Narges Mohammadi (right) from the centre for Human Rights Defenders, listens to Karim Lahidji, president of the Iranian league for the Defence of Human Rights, during a press conference on the Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Iran, at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, June 9, 2008
IRANIAN human rights activist Narges Mohammadi says she “does not recognise” her new sentence of eight years and two months in jail plus 74 lashes, saying it is unlawful.
The veteran campaigner penned a letter from Qarchak women’s prison in Tehran, saying she is being punished for “foreign conspiracy against the Islamic Republic of Iran” merely for having been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Amnesty International Norway.
She says her prosecution, trial and sentence are a “completely illegal, illegitimate, inhuman and immoral act that contravenes all laws and regulations.”
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