The Supreme Court Accused Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh of 'Moharebeh' with 'Violation of Previous Ruling'

Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh's lawyer, one of the detainees from the nationwide protests, states that one of the branches of the Supreme Court has violated its previous ruling regarding his client and has once again accused him of 'Moharebeh'. Hamed Ahmadi, the lawyer, referred to the latest development in his client's case to 'Shargh Network' and said: 'It is unbelievable that a branch of the Supreme Court has issued two different rulings on the same case within two or three months.' Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh was sentenced last November by the Revolutionary Court to 10 years of exile to Kahnuj in Kerman province for 'Moharebeh', 5 years in prison for 'gathering and collusion', and 1 year in prison for 'disturbing public order'. However, Branch 39 of the Supreme Court rejected the charge of 'Moharebeh' against this protestor in January 2022. Now, Hamed Ahmadi states: 'The same Branch 39 of the Supreme Court, which initially rejected the charge of 'Moharebeh' against Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh and emphasized that Sahand's actions do not fall under Article 687 of the Penal Code and that issuing this ruling is illegal, has now confirmed the charge of 'Moharebeh' but changed the death penalty to exile in Kahnuj, Kerman.' According to Hamed Ahmadi, the 10-year exile and 6-year prison sentence for his client have been confirmed by the Supreme Court, but the details of the ruling have not yet been communicated to him. Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh, 25 years old and an athlete, worked in the Tirazheh shopping center in northwest Tehran and was arrested by the IRGC's Sarallah Headquarters a day after the protests in that area, on October 12. He was accused of 'Moharebeh' by Branch 29 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran and sentenced to 'death'. The charges against him included 'Moharebeh through destruction and arson of public property' and 'gathering and collusion against national security'. According to Hamed Ahmadi, the Islamic Revolutionary Court's justification for issuing the death sentence and labeling him as a 'leader' of the protests is 'a video in which this young protestor attempts to uproot a highway guardrail,' while the defendant has denied uprooting the guardrail and setting fire to a trash can and 'has explicitly denied his actions aimed at opposing the regime throughout all stages of the proceedings.' The Shargh newspaper reported on the video referenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court, stating: 'IRIB and some other media outlets broadcast a video of Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh in which he neither sets fire to a trash can nor commits any other act that could be considered 'Moharebeh'.' This newspaper emphasized: 'The ruling issued for Nourmohammadzadeh does not align with the definitions of the charge of 'Moharebeh' from the perspective of independent lawyers and legal scholars.'