GVF — An appeals court has upheld a previously issued five-year jail-term for activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh.

According to opposition website Kaleme, Ebrahimzadeh, a labour and children’s rights activist, has been in jail for the past sixteen months without “any evidence” brought against him.

The activist, who already suffers from a number of health complications, is being held in ward 350 of Evin prison where prisoners have been deprived of warm water for the past few weeks.

While Ebrahimzadeh’s initial sentence had been twenty years in prison; a different court reduced the sentence to five years. In the end, however, the appeals court approved the five-year ruling.