HRANA News Agency – Ali Abdi, a former student activist, has been summoned to begin serving his prison sentence.
In a post on his Telegram channel, Abdi announced that he has been ordered to appear at the Sentence Enforcement Branch of Evin Prosecutor’s Office and will report there on Monday, February 24.
According to Abdi, he was sentenced to six years in prison for articles he wrote a decade ago about gender and sexual minorities, five years in prison for protesting the announced results of the 2009 presidential election, and one year in prison for “propaganda against the regime.” His sentence was later upheld by the Court of Appeals.
Abdi was previously arrested in June 2023 in Isfahan and spent 140 days in detention before being released on bail.