Tehran: Mohammad Habibi imprisoned for criticizing chemical attacks on schools

Hengaw: Monday, July 22, 2024

Mohammad Habibi, the spokesperson for Tehran’s teachers union, was sentenced to six months and one day in prison by the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran for criticizing the poisoning of students in chemical attacks on schools.

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mohammad Habibi, a teachers' union activist, was recently sentenced to six months and one day in prison by the 2nd branch of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court of Shariar on the charge of "propaganda against the regime.”

This case was initiated against Mohammad Habibi due to his protest against the serial poisoning of students, which continued in schools from November 30, 2022, to April 2023.

Previously, Mohammad Habibi wrote about his retrial: "While the perpetrators of the student poisonings have never been held accountable, individuals like myself, Ziya Nabawi, and Hasti Amiri are being punished for our rightful protests."

This teacher was arrested by Iranian Intelligence forces in West Tehran on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. He was released from Evin Prison on May 22, 2023, after posting bail of one billion tomans. This arrest occurred shortly after his previous release from Evin Prison on February 8, 2023.

Mohammad Habibi, 45, was arrested by Iranian government forces on April 30, 2022, and initially held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. He was later moved to a solitary cell in Ward 240 of the same facility.

In November 2022, Branch 26 of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced him to three years and seven months on charges of "unlawful assembly and collusion." Additionally, he received a one-year sentence for "propaganda against the regime," a two-year ban on activities and group membership, and a prohibition on leaving the country.