A Telegram Channel manager sentenced to be flogged 74 times

00:59 - 23 August 2018
Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa): The manager of Baneh News Telegram Channel was sentenced to be given 74 slashes.

According to our reporters, The Iranian judicial organization sentenced Shoja Hoseinzadeh, the manager of Baneh News Telegram Channel to be flogged 74 times.

In a brief interview with Kurdistan Press Agency, Hoseinzadeh confirmed the news and said: “I was accused of insulting the president due to publishing a cartoon, in a period of filtering the telegram, in which Hasan Rouhani, Iranian president had its (famous) key in its hand turned to a wrong direction”.

“The judicial organization found me guilty of assaulting the president”, he added.

Has Hoseinzadeh lodged a complaint against the verdict, he expects the verdict to be overturn in the Appeal Court which is to be held in Sanandaj.