Sentencing of 16 Post-Election Protesters

From human rights activist Fereshteh Ghazi:

• Alireza Eshraghi - 5 years
• Mohsen Jafari - 4 years
• Mehrdad Varshoie - 3 years
• Yaghoutil Shanoulian - 2 years 6 months
• Faramarz Abdollah Nezhad - 2 years 4 months
• Amir Hojjati - 2 years 3 months
• Mousa Shah Karami - 2 years 3 months
• Kamran Jahanbani - 2 years
• Hossein Bastani - 2 years
• Hossein Ezami - 2 years
• Mehdi Fatah Bakhsh - 1 year 9 months
• Majid Moghimi - 1 year
• Mohammad Farahani - 10 months
• Mohammad Rasouli - 10 months
• Meysam Ghorbani - 6 months and 74 lashes
• Reza Imanpour - 6 months

The sentences accompany the disturbing death sentences handed down to three four other detainees, supposedly for their membership in a monarchist opposition group. All of this comes after Sadegh Larijani took over the Iranian Judiciary in August. Obviously such developments erase any hope that Larijani's appointment would ease the tensions and rid the terror that his predecessor, Saeed Mortazavi, helped create.