Former Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzadeh has been sentenced to six years in prison for his participation in protesting last year's contested Iranian presidential election, state-run Iranian Students News Agency has reported.

A Jurist report notes that Aminzadeh was a leading member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and a supporter of Green Movement leader Mir Hossein Moussavi during the June 2009 election. He was an outspoken critic of the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to ISNA, Aminzadeh was convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran of conspiring to disturb security and spreading propaganda. The Iranian Government has yet to officially confirm Aminzadeh's sentence.
Full Jurist report