New York, April 28, 2017--Iranian authorities should immediately drop all charges against freelance journalist Issa Saharkhiz, who was sentenced yesterday to one year in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The sentence was handed down the day after Saharkhiz was released from jail on a separate charge, according to the journalist's son and his lawyer.
Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, the journalist's attorney, told the Tasnim news agency that a court found Saharkhiz guilty of insulting former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the head of Iran's judiciary, Sadeq Larijani, and sentenced him to one year in prison.
Saharkhiz is also due to face trial on May 10 in a third case, on charges of "insulting officials," according to his attorney and the journalist's son, Mehdi Saharkhiz. The two latest charges and the sentence Saharkhiz just served relate to his 2015 arrest.
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