Tehran, A revolutionary court has jailed prominent dissident and blogger Mehdi Khazali for six years for endangering national security and for propaganda, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday, citing Khazali's lawyer.
He will appeal the verdict, his lawyer Mostafa Tork Hamedani said.
Khazali was released on bail in June after being arrested in January and is the son of ultraconservative ayatollah Abolqasem Khazali, a member of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that oversees supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's work.
Khazali was convicted of the same charges in February last year and was handed sentences including 14 years in jail, according to human rights organisations. He was re-arrested earlier this year and bailed in June.
He sharply criticised Iran's previous president, the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies, especially after Iran's Guardian Council excluded him from running as a candidate in the 2008 parliamentary elections.
Khazali was arrested for his role in the protests over Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009 and several times in the following years.
He spent 70 days in Tehran's Evin prison in 2012 before being released after a long hunger-strike.
He will appeal the verdict, his lawyer Mostafa Tork Hamedani said.
Khazali was released on bail in June after being arrested in January and is the son of ultraconservative ayatollah Abolqasem Khazali, a member of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that oversees supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's work.
Khazali was convicted of the same charges in February last year and was handed sentences including 14 years in jail, according to human rights organisations. He was re-arrested earlier this year and bailed in June.
He sharply criticised Iran's previous president, the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies, especially after Iran's Guardian Council excluded him from running as a candidate in the 2008 parliamentary elections.
Khazali was arrested for his role in the protests over Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009 and several times in the following years.
He spent 70 days in Tehran's Evin prison in 2012 before being released after a long hunger-strike.
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