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Iranian café chain mogul jailed and stripped of assets for backing January protests

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What happened

Sadegh Saeedinia, manager of the Saeedinia café chain, was convicted of "propaganda against national security" for posting about the January protests on Instagram and encouraging staff to strike, in one of the harshest sentences handed to a private entrepreneur since the unrest.

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