Tehran, 19 Sept. (AKI) – A sixteen-year-old teenager has been sentenced to five years in jail for political activism.
Ebrahim Mehrnahad was sentenced by a court in Zahedan, capital of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province for ‘conspiracy against the central powers’.
Mehrnahad is the younger brother of Yaghoub Mehrnahad, a journalist and activist who was hanged on 4 August in Zahedan for alleged membership of Jundallah (Soldiers of Allah), an armed Baluchi group.
Ebrahim was also a member of a youth cultural association, founded by his late brother.
