United Students reported that Nabi Omidi, an associate professor of economics and financial management at Payam Noor University, was sentenced to 9 years in prison, of which five years are executory, for participating in and supporting the January 1404 demonstrations in Malakshahi.
According to this report, Omid was accused of "acting against national security", "propaganda against the regime" and participating in demonstrations. His sentence was given for the first time in the first branch of the revolutionary court in Ilam, and then the first branch of the district court of Ilam confirmed it. This sentence is now final. In addition to the imprisonment, expulsion from the university, a ban on leaving the country, confiscation of a passport and a ban on entering the city of Malkashai were announced as additional punishments for this professor at the university. According to the United Students report, Omid has now been expelled from Payam Noor University.
The united students also reported that the security forces violently arrested Omid on January 4, 1404, and during the arrest his left hand and nose were broken. After spending 30 days in solitary confinement in the detention center of the Ilam Intelligence Division, he was transferred to the central prison of Ilam.