HRANA News Agency – Asghar Amirzadegan, a teacher and member of the teachers’ union in Fars province, has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison by the Criminal Court of Firouzabad County.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Branch 101 of the Firouzabad Criminal Court issued the verdict on February 11, 2025. Amirzadegan was sentenced to two years for “insulting the Supreme Leader” and “insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic” and an additional one year for “propaganda against the regime,” bringing his total prison term to three years.
This is not the first time Amirzadegan has faced imprisonment. In June 2023, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced him to five years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security.” This sentence was later upheld by Branch 37 of the Fars Province Court of Appeals.
He began serving his five-year sentence in November 2023 at Firouzabad Prison but was released in January 2024 after his appeal was accepted and his sentence was suspended.
However, in March 2024, he was convicted in a separate case and sentenced by the Firouzabad Revolutionary Court to one year in prison for “propaganda against the regime,” following a complaint by the Firouzabad prosecutor.
Earlier this month, Amirzadegan was arrested again and transferred to Firouzabad Prison to serve his latest sentence.
A long-time advocate for teachers’ rights, Amirzadegan has been repeatedly arrested and sentenced due to his activism.