Saleh Nikbakht

In October 2023, Saleh Nikbakht was called to court on the charge of propagandizing against the Islamic Republic of Iran during an interview with Persian-language TV channels outside Iran about the case of Mahsa Amini, and was finally sentenced to one year in prison and two years of being banned from using cyberspace.^[6] In this regard, his lawyer stated that there is no evidence of propaganda against the regime in Nikbakht's interviews.^[7][8]

Nikbakht represented Mahsa Amini, who was given the 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought posthumously at a ceremony in Strasbourg by The European Parliament. Nikbakht also read the message of Mehsa Amini's mother at the ceremony.^{[9][10][11][12]}