Prisoner update: 6-year prison sentence approved for student activist Salman Sima
GVF -- Branch 54 of the appeal court has approved a six-year prison sentence handed down to student activist Salman Sima.
According to Advar News, Sima’s lawyer announced the news, saying that the appeal court had ignored the defence’s objections to the initial ruling.
Sima is a student activist from the Islamic Azad University and a member of the student organisation The Office for Fostering Unity (Tahkime Vahdat). He was arrested on Saturday 12 June during the sporadic protests on Enghelab (Revolution) street on the first anniversary of last year’s election coup.
It should be noted that the case against Sima was based mainly on his student activities between 2002 and 2007. Following last year’s fraudulent election, he has spent close to 130 days in prison for two separate cases. This is the second time this year that Salman Sima has been jailed. He had previously spent close to a hundred days in prison in the months following last year’s rigged election. Sima was also arrested by the Intelligence Ministry in the summer of 2008 and spent more than forty days in Evin prison.
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