Iran: Teenager sentenced to five years for political activism

And earlier today, Iranian President Mahmoud I’mADamnNutJob addressed the UN, saying that without justice, the entire universe would collapse.

Tehran, 19 Sept. (AKI) - A sixteen-year-old teenager has been sentenced to five years in jail for political activism.

Ebrahim Mehrnahad was sentenced by a court in Zahedan, capital of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province for ‘conspiracy against the central powers’.

Mehrnahad is the younger brother of Yaghoub Mehrnahad, a journalist and activist who was hanged on 4 August in Zahedan for alleged membership of Jundallah (Soldiers of Allah), an armed Baluchi group.

Ebrahim was also a member of a youth cultural association, founded by his late brother.

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