Iran's judiciary has announced numerous prison sentences for a large number of defendants charged with "disrupting the country's economic order."
The rulings announced July 30 include prison terms of up to 20 years. In one case, more than a dozen public servants working for a government institution in the northern Gilan province were found guilty of embezzlement and bribery. And last week, 19 individuals received a combined 150 years over the notorious corruption case involving Padideh Shandiz, an enormous economic project in the conservative northeastern city of Mashhad.