A correspondent for Newsweek jailed in Iran for nearly four months last year before leaving the country has been sentenced in absentia by
an Iranian court to an extended flogging and more than 13 years in prison for counterrevolutionary acts, the Iranian government announced
on Monday, reports Ukrinform, citing The New York Times.
The court sentenced him to 13 years and 6 months in prison and 74 lashes, on charges of conspiring against national security, possession of classified documents, propagating against the government, and insulting both the supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Mr. Ahmadinejad. He has the right to appeal within 10 days.
The journalist was arrested in the days after the election, when huge demonstrations erupted in Iran over charges that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had stolen the vote. Mr. Bahari was jailed for 118 days and released on $300,000 bail. He flew to London after his release to join his wife and newborn daughter.
