Protest detainee Pouria Amini sentenced to eight years in prison in Gonabad

Hengaw – Friday, June 12, 2026

Continuing the Iranian judiciary’s crackdown on individuals arrested during the January protests, Pouria Amini, a protest detainee from Gonabad in Razavi Khorasan Province, has been sentenced to a total of eight years in prison.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the verdict was issued by the Revolutionary Court of Gonabad and was recently communicated to Amini.

Under the ruling, Amini was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion to disrupt national security,” two years for “insulting the Supreme Leader (Ali Khamenei),” and one year for “propaganda against the state.”

Under Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, which governs the aggregation of sentences, only the most severe punishment, five years of imprisonment, will be enforceable.

Amini was arrested by Iranian security forces on Saturday, January 10, 2026, during a wave of arrests linked to the January protests.

After spending approximately three months in detention, he was temporarily released from Gonabad Prison on April 9, 2026, after posting bail of 30 billion rials (3 billion tomans), pending the completion of judicial proceedings.