Iranian regime sentences student activist to seven years in prison for 'peaceful protest'

Amnesty calls for immediate release of Maryam Shafipour as concerns continue about her deteriorating health in Tehran jail

The Guardian - An Iranian court has sentenced a leading student activist and human rights campaigner to seven years in prison for peaceful political activism.

Maryam Shafipour, 29, who is being held in a women's wing of Evin prison in Tehran, was found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "gathering and colluding" against the ruling system. She was arrested in July after being summoned for questioning and was kept in solitary confinement for more than two months without access to her lawyer.