and raising his fingers in a “V” sign after his arrest.
Amir Sheibani-zadeh, 23, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has already been banned from attending any university in Iran.
The Mashhadi said he was taken before a judge last Monday and told he was charged with “acting against national security though an illegal assembly” and “propagating against the regime.”
As the trial progressed, he said, only two incidents were raised in support of those charges—“one for talking to the JARAS website [run by the opposition Green Movement] and the other is that after my arrest [on February 14] I raised my hands in the “V” sign. I agreed to neither of the charges and said that I have not lied and I have not done anything wrong. I participated in a march in support of the people in Egypt and attending it was my Sharia and human right.”
Sheibani-zadeh said he has been repeatedly arrested in recent years and was recently sentenced to eight years in prison for participating in a protest on July 14, 2008, a year before the disputed elections.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Maleki, 78, one of the oldest men arrested for anti-regime protests, appeared in court last week. Maleki was the first chancellor of the University of Tehran after the revolution. He has been charged with “enmity for God,” which carries the death penalty.
