On August 18, 2020, Nourizad’s lawyer said that his client had sentenced to eight months in prison, 74 lashes and a one-year exile for “Presence in Front of Courthouse”, and a further 74 lashes for “spreading lies”. The first conviction was in relation to Nourizad having been present in front of a courthouse in Mashhad on August 10, 2019, while another dissident was on trial.