Daughter of Iran ex-prez on trial
Tehran, December 25, AFP:
The daughter of Iranian former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is standing trial on charges of making anti-regime propaganda, her lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday after a closed hearing.
“After the court told her about her accusation of propaganda against the regime, she and I gave our defence,” Gholam Ali Riahi, who represented Faezeh Hashemi at the hearing on Saturday, said according to the newspaper Arman.
Hashemi was arrested and released after taking part in a number of protests which erupted after a 2009 election which saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returned to the office despite opposition claims that the vote was rigged.
