The Appeals Court of Tehran Province has upheld the one-year prison sentence and monetary fine imposed on environmental activist Yousef Farhadi Babadi.

In a statement regarding the verdict, Mr. Farhadi Babadi said, “The one-year prison sentence and the fine have been confirmed without providing me the opportunity to defend myself in the Appeals Court, and without my knowledge of which branch issued the verdict.”

In July, Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Mr. Farhadi Babadi to one year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the regime” and an additional year in prison along with a 15 million toman fine for “spreading falsehoods against the Ministry of Intelligence.”

Earlier, at the end of April, Farhadi Babadi was summoned to the First Branch of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office after receiving a summons. The indictment on the aforementioned charges was issued in May. This activist has a prior history of arrest.