Iran regime sentences 4 reporters to 27 years in jail

NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime has sentenced four journalists to a combined total of 27 years of jail, their lawyer announced on Tuesday.

Afarin Chitsaz was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for gathering and colluding to disrupt national security and having ties to foreign governments, her lawyer Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaee told the state-run Tasnim news agency.

Ehsan Mazandarani was given a seven year sentence for propaganda against the regime and gathering and colluding to disrupt national security, Alizadeh-Tabatabaee said.

Davood Assadi and Ehsan (Saman) Safarzaie were each handed down a five year sentence for gathering and colluding to disrupt national security.

The four detained journalists previously wrote for state-run media in Iran. They were arrested on November 2, 2015 in raids on their homes by intelligence agents of the Revolutionary Guards who accused them of spying for the governments of the United Kingdom and United States.