A well-known Iranian Christian woman received a suspended prison sentence April 21 and an order to be flogged 10 times for reportedly protesting the government’s downing of Ukrainian Airline Flight 752, International Christian Concern says.
Christian human rights activist Mary Fatima Mohammadi was arrested after being in the area of a protest against the destruction of Flight 752, which took off from Tehran on Jan. 8 and was downed by two missiles from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. All 176 persons on board were killed.
Iran’s government initially denied involvement but soon admitted it was at fault. It blamed human error.
Mohammadi was charged with “disrupting public order by participating in an illegal rally.” She was ordered to receive a flogging of 10 lashes and a suspended prison sentence of three months, International Christian Concern (ICC) said.
Mohammadi said on Instagram her conviction was due to “protesting against the slaughter of human beings; because of showing sympathy for the families of those who perished on the Ukraine airline crash; because of defending the rights of all humans.”
Still, on Twitter she said there “is no evidence against me, so I ought to have been acquitted.”
“But instead I was sentenced not only to imprisonment but also flogging. It should be mentioned that even before the verdict was handed down, I was forced to…
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