Iran court rejects US pastor's appeal of prison sentence

[JURIST] An Iranian court of appeals on Sunday rejected the appeal of American pastor Saeed Abedini and refused to reduce his eight-year prison term in the Evin prison. Abedini was sentenced [JURIST report] in January by a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Iran to eight years in prison for threatening national security through his leadership in Christian house churches. Before the two-judge panel refused his appeal, Abedini's lawyers had been hopeful that his case would be shown greater...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/08/iran-court-rejects-us-pastors-appeal-of-prison-sentence.php

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