Thread by @AlinejadMasih

1-Today, I’m heartbroken. We had applied to the appeals court to appeal my brother’s 8-year sentence. Despite our efforts, the appeals court in Iran is adamant about my brother’s sentence. All because he’s related to me. My innocent brother is in jail due to my activism abroad

2-The regime alleges that my brother, Alireza Alinejad, is in jail because of “campaigning against the regime”. The same regime that wanted to take its revenge from the Americans but ended up only being capable of shooting down a civilian airline filled with innocent Iranians.

3-The same regime that did not hesitate to kill more than 1500 protesters during November 2019’s #IranProtests, but has categorically refused to try any of the killers.

4-The same regime whose lying puppet with a sunny smile, Javad Zarif, tells foreigners: “If more than 70 people died in a pro-Soleimani stampede, that’s because these people loved Soleimani so much that they were ready to die for him”

5-The same regime that killed an innocent protester like Mostafa during 2009’s #IranProtests while imprisoning his mother Shahnaz for making too much noise about her poor son’s tragic fate

6-The same regime that has sentenced 20-year-old innocent Saba Kord-Afshari to 24 years in prison for her activism against forced hijab while also imprisoning her mother, Raheleh, for talking about her daughter’s plight openly.

7-The same regime that killed a young girl named Elnaz during the downing of the Ukrainian Airlines plane, but also stole her wedding ring during the autopsy.

8-The same regime that caused Hamed Esmailion to lose his beloved wife Parisa and beloved daughter Reera during the downing of the Ukrainian Airlines plane

9-The same regime that refuses to jail President Rouhani’s brother for embezzlement & Said Toosi for raping underage kids as they’re connected to the regime. But innocent activists like Mojgan Keshavarz, Yasaman Aryani, Atena Daemi and countless others are languishing in prison

10-The same regime that mercilessly killed Pouya Bakhtiyari during November 2019’s #IranProtests while also arresting 11 of his family members for going public. They didn’t even let them mourn for Pouya’s death

11-The same regime that made it forbidden to the families of 1500 people brutally killed during November 2019’s #IranProtests to mourn for their beloved ones, but forced Iranians to mourn for a murderer like Qasem Soleimani for 3 days.