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According to elple.net, charges listed against him were "Moharebeh, conspiracy to undermine national security, spreading propaganda, insulting high government officials." Among his crimes are
He was convicted of Moharebeh, or defiance of God, under Iranian Islamic law. Valian is one of 11 people sentenced to death so far for taking part in opposition protests challenging the legitimacy of the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As of March 2010, two of the eleven have been executed.
Iranian opposition leaders and some Islamic scholars have criticised the use of moharabeh and the death penalty against street protests, and in a 5 March 2010 statement the United States government criticized his sentence as "disproportionate.".
