Yasamin Dashtani, defendant in Ekbatan Town case, sentenced to five years in prison and additional restrictions

Hengaw – Friday, May 29, 2026

Yasamin Dashtani, one of the defendants in the so-called “Ekbatan Town case” and a detainee of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, has been sentenced by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to five years in prison along with a series of additional punitive measures.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, sentenced Dashtani to five years of imprisonment on charges of “assembly and collusion to commit crimes against national security.”

In addition to the prison sentence, she was handed supplementary punishments including a two-year ban on membership in political parties and groups, a two-year ban on residing in Tehran and Alborz provinces, and a two-year prohibition on activities in cyberspace and social media.

Dashtani was arrested by Iranian government forces on Dec. 18, 2022, and was released two days later, on Dec. 20, after completing interrogation procedures and posting bail.

The case, widely known as the “Ekbatan Town case,” was opened during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in November 2022 following the reported killing of a Basij member, Arman Aliverdi, in Tehran’s Ekbatan Town. The case initially involved 14 defendants, but indictments were ultimately issued against eight individuals.

Four of those defendants were recently sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary, drawing renewed concerns over the handling of the case and the broader crackdown on participants in the protest movement.