Sepideh Roshno Reports Four Years and One Month Prison Sentence

Sepideh Roshno announced on her Instagram that she has been sentenced to four years and one month in prison for two cases against her. Roshno wrote: "The initial ruling of the second court on the 10th of Mehr includes six months of imprisonment and a ten million toman fine, along with a one-year ban on Instagram presence and the deletion of my current Instagram page." She emphasized that the six-month prison sentence in the second case will cause the three years and seven months of suspended prison sentence from the first case to be activated. Sepideh Roshno stated that she has been sentenced to a total of four years and one month in prison "only for demanding her most basic human rights." She had previously written: "Today; on the 10th of Mehr 1402, I will appear in court with my lawyer Mr. Panahipour to defend against two charges of 'encouraging corruption and prostitution and propaganda against the regime,' which are solely based on the first post of my Instagram page." The Mizan news agency, affiliated with the judiciary, claimed at that time that "given Roshno's absence from the court, her lawyer submitted his defense statement to the relevant court branch." Sepideh Roshno, born in 1994, is a writer and editor who was arrested in Tir 1401 after protesting against 'mandatory hijab' and resisting the interference of a woman named 'Raheh Rabiei' regarding her dress code, and was forced to make a 'coerced confession' in front of the Islamic Republic's state television cameras. Sepideh Roshno: I will go to court without 'hijab'; Judiciary: The court was held without her presence. Roshno's decision to attend court with optional hijab. Roshno recounts the night when 'ten or twelve' agents attacked: They said they would break your neck. Concurrent pressure from both her family and the Islamic Republic on Sepideh Roshno: They say 'give it up.' Sepideh Roshno reported: Two semesters of academic suspension by the disciplinary committee.