A Tipperary man has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison in Iran.
While working in the country, 65 year old tourism consultant Bernard Phelan, who’s a native of Clonmel, was initially jailed last October, in what has been described as deplorable conditions in a prison in Mashhad in the north-east of the country.
He’s accused of “providing information to an enemy country” – a charge he denies.
At a press conference in Buswells Hotel in Dublin this afternoon, his cousin, Gregory O’Corry-Crowe, pleaded with the Irish government to intervene, as Bernard’s health deteriorates.
