A Poet Sentenced To Imprisonment In Kashan

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Mahdavifar, poet from Aran Bidgol has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison in the primary court.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Mahdavifar, poet from Aran Bidgol who had been tried in the 105th branch of the criminal justice of Kashan in December has been sentenced to a year and a half prison on charges of “spreading false news”.

The charges which were notified to Mr. Mahdavi on 30th December have been mentioned as; harrowing the public opinion and Spreading lies.

Mohammad Mahdavifar was denied of having a lawyer at his trial and in the five-minute-long court, no question regarding the poetry had not been asked.

Mr. Mahdavifar had been summoned to the court on October.

Mohammad Mahdavifar, poet from Aran and Bidgol, after writing a 32-bit Masnavi called “Alphabet” last year and reading it in the literary community in Kashan, was interrogated by Branch 2 of the investigation of Aran and Bidgol (on behalf of the investigative Branch of Kashan).

An informed sources told HRANA that the Revolutionary Guards militias (Basij) in Kashan reported this poetry to the judicial and security forces.

It is worth mentioning that earlier, he was charged of harrowing the public opinion, propaganda against the regime and insulting authorities like Jannati and Khalkhali.