In
a ruling handed down by Branch 54 of the Appeals Court in the case of Amir
Yaghoub-Ali, this student and equal rights defenders, has been sentenced to
a one year suspended sentence for the period of four years. During these
four years, Amir is required to report to the local branch of the
Intelligence Ministry every four months. If he is found guilty by the courts
of another crime, during the course of the four years, the serving of the
suspended sentence becomes mandatory.
Amir Yaghoub-Ali was arrested in
July 2007 while collecting signatures in support of the Campaign's petition
in Andisheh Park in Tehran and subsequently spent 29 days in Section 209 of
Evin Prison, managed by the Intelligence Ministry. Branch 15 of the
Revolutionary Courts sentenced him to one year mandatory sentence. The
current ruling, of one year suspended sentence for the period of four years,
and reporting to the local branch of the Intelligence Ministry every four
months for interrogation during the course of these four years is a ruling
by the appeals court. According to his lawyer, Nasrin Sotoodeh, explains
that: "this kind of suspension, which is accompanied by severe control of
the accused, is unprecedented."