Mullahocracy at its finest:
PRAGUE, Czech Republic: A journalist who works for a U.S.-funded radio outlet has been convicted by an Iranian court of spreading anti-state propaganda and sentenced to one year in prison, her company said Monday.
Iranian-American Parnaz Azima was not in Iran during the court action Saturday. She now has the difficult choice of deciding whether to return to Tehran, where she had to forfeit the deed to her mother’s home to raise the bail needed to be released from custody.
Azima, who is based in Prague, was found guilty by Tehran’s 13th Revolutionary Court of “spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic” by working for the “anti-revolutionary” Radio Farda, the Persian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the broadcaster said.
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