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Iran ex-official gets 6 years in jail for protests (AP)

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, second right, in prison uniform among other defendants, sits at the court room in Tehran, Iran. Abtahi, a top reformer has been sentenced to six years in jail after he stood trial on charges of fomenting unrest to topple the Iranian regime, his lawyer said Sunday. Abtahi is one of more than 100 leading moderates detained after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara, file) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - An Iranian court sentenced a former vice president to six years in jail as part of a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest after the disputed June presidential election, the defendant’s lawyer said Sunday.

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