Court sentences ex-student leader
An Iranian court sentenced former student leader Babak Zamanian to one year in prison on a charge of acting against national security, according to semiofficial news agencies in Tehran.
Zamanian, subject of a Times profile in December, led boisterous rallies in 2006 against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the campus of Amir Kabir University in Tehran.
He was arrested last April and held for 40 days in Evin prison, where he says he was subjected to physical and mental abuse before his release on bail. His lawyer said he would appeal the verdict.
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