Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court had previously sentenced Nazar Ahari to six years in prison plus 74 lashes.
According to opposition website Kaleme, branch 34 of Tehran’s Appeals Court acquitted Nazar Ahari of the charge of “assembly and collusion against the regime,” and sentenced her to four years in prison in Karaj city plus 74 lashes.
The prominent human rights activist had been convicted of gathering and plotting to commit crimes against the state, propaganda against the “Islamic establishment” and Moharebeh (waging war against God), a crime punishable by death.
The 26-year-old is a founder of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters in Tehran and was arrested in December 2009 on her way to the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, considered by many to be the spiritual leader of the Green movement. She was released on bail of after nine months on 12 September.
Nazar Ahari was also arrested once more, shortly after the fraudulent June 2009 presidential election, but released on a heavy bail after spending three months in Tehran's Evin prison.
During her imprisonment, Shiva Nazar-Ahari spent more than three months in solitary confinement.
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