Hasti Amiri, student activist, sentenced to three years in prison and social restrictions
Hengaw – Monday, August 18, 2025
Hasti Amiri, a student activist at Allameh Tabataba’i University and a former political prisoner from Tehran, has been sentenced by the Iranian judiciary to three years in prison, a fine of 53.3 million tomans, and additional social restrictions.
Based on a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Hasti Amiri, a student activist at Allameh Tabataba’i University from Tehran, was sentenced by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to two years in prison and a fine of 50 million tomans on charges of “spreading false information,” one year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state,” and a fine of 3.3 million tomans on charges of “appearing unveiled in public.”
This political prisoner was also sentenced to a two-year travel ban and a two-year prohibition on membership in political groups or organizations as supplementary punishment.
Amiri announced on her Instagram page that the ruling was issued in absentia due to her non-attendance at the trial and was delivered to her on Sunday, August 17, 2025.
On Sunday, April 27, 2025, Amiri was released from Evin Prison after posting bail of 1.5 billion tomans. The day before, on April 26, 2025, she was detained after appearing at the Evin Prosecutor’s Office and transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison.
Amiri has previously faced arrest and judicial proceedings. On August 4, 2024, following her release from prison, she protested the death sentence of Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi by holding her photo in public.
In August 2023, Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, sentenced Amiri to one year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state.” The ruling was later upheld in full by Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeal.
On April 6, 2024, after being summoned to Branch 1 of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office, she was arrested once again and transferred to Evin Prison to serve her one-year sentence.
This case relates to a protest on March 6, 2023, held by students at Allameh Tabataba’i University against the poisoning of schoolgirls, in which Amiri also participated.
