News Center- Fatemeh Sepehri, a political prisoner imprisoned in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, has been sentenced to an additional two years and six months in prison on charges of “insulting Ali Khamenei” and to one year and three months on charges of “Propaganda against the regime,” by Branch 5 of Revolutionary Court of Mashhad, her brother, Asghar Sepehri announced on Sunday.

In a post on social media platform X, Asghar Sepehri wrote that the verdict was issued against his sister on March 13, 2025, following the publication of two protest letters addressing Masoud Pezeshkian and Ali Khamenei but communicated to the political prisoner later.

Fatemeh Sepehri is a political and women’s rights activist. She is one of the signatories of the Statement of 14 Political Activists during the 2017–2018 Iranian protests requesting the resignation of Ali Khamenei from his post as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic and later the abolition of Islamic republic and establishment of a democratic secular government.

She was arrested in Mashhad on August 1, 2021 during a peaceful demonstration demanding the release of political prisoners. She was then released. She was rearrested in a house raid on September 21, 2022. In February 2023, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Court of Appeal of Mashhad on charges of “propaganda activities against the Islamic republic”, “cooperation with hostile governments”, “insulting the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei”, and “gathering and conspiring against national security”.

In September 2023, she was temporarily released from prison. She underwent her heart surgery on October 1 and returned to prison on October 7, 2023.