Iran Jails Psychologist 7 Months After Trump Plea, Opens 2nd Case

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 15

Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, 32, was transferred to Borujen Prison in July to serve a seven-month sentence after posting a Jan. 4 video urging Donald Trump to back Iranian protesters.
10 days after that appeal, plainclothes agents arrested him at his father's home, seized phones and electronics, and held him in solitary confinement and an IRGC intelligence detention facility in Isfahan, rights groups said.
Branch One of the Borujen Revolutionary Court convicted him of media activity against national security and also barred him from government and public services for five years; a second propaganda case opened in June is still under investigation.
Relatives said interrogators accused him of CIA and Mossad ties and pressed him to record a video insulting Trump and Americans, while he was denied family contact for 17 days and access to a lawyer of his choosing.
His case comes amid a wider crackdown on January protests that rights groups say led to more than 50,000 arrests, while the U.N. says at least 56 people have been executed on national-security charges since March 19.