Student activist and journalist Mohsen Sanatipour has been sentenced to one year in prison, a local human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The verdict was served to Sanatipour’s lawyer last week and the Enforcement Judge summoned him to begin serving his sentence.

Sanatipour is a chemistry student at Mashhad’s Ferdowsi University and Secretary of the university’s Allameh Group. He has also worked with several student publications.