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The court also sentenced Arash Keykhosravi, Mohammad Reza Fahighi, and Maryam Afrafaraz to one year in prison and a one-year ban from practicing law, 6 months in prison, and 95 days in prison, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/blog-feed\/iranian-society-under-crackdown#blog-379685\u0022\u003EAuthorities arrested\u003C\/a\u003E seven human rights defenders on August 14, 2021. Two rights defenders, Leila Heydari and Mohammad Hadi Erfanian, were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/06\/29\/iran-rights-defenders-sentenced-questioning-covid-policies\u0022\u003Ereleased\u003C\/a\u003E without charge after a few hours. Afrafaraz and Faghihi were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/06\/29\/iran-rights-defenders-sentenced-questioning-covid-policies\u0022\u003Ereleased\u003C\/a\u003E on bail on August 29, 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, authorities \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.frontlinedefenders.org\/en\/case\/human-rights-defender-mustafa-nili-released-on-bail#case-update-id-14656\u0022\u003Econtinued to hold\u003C\/a\u003E Keykhosravi and Nili until December 2021. Mahmoudian is currently serving a four-year prison sentence \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hra-news.org\/2021\/hranews\/a-31864\/\u0022\u003Ehe previously received\u003C\/a\u003E on politically motivated charges of \u201cpropaganda against the state,\u201d and \u201cassembly and collusion to act against national security.\u201d In an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/persian\/iran-58866320\u0022\u003Eopen letter\u003C\/a\u003E, the three of them described rights violations they experienced in detention, including being placed in solitary confinement for over a month and denied access to their lawyers and families.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore their arrest, all seven rights defenders were preparing to file a complaint against the country\u2019s national task force against Covid-19, which included Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, for its\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/iran-government-mismanagement-compounds-covid-19-crisis\u0022\u003Emismanagement\u003C\/a\u003E of the pandemic response. 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