HRANA News Agency – Ebraham Firoozi, Christian convert and prisoner of conscience in Rajai Shahr prison has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), the sentence was delivered last Monday by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court to Ebrahim Firoozi’s solicitor. Continue reading “Ebrahim Firoozi Sentenced to 5 Years Imprisonment”
HRANA News Agency – Nasim Ashrafi was freed from Evin prison on April 8, having served a one-year sentence for her Bahai beliefs.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), she was arrested in a wave of detentions of Bahais in Tehran, Mashhad and Shiraz in early July, 2012, and began serving her sentence on May 6, 2014. Continue reading “Nasim Ashrafi Freed from Evin Prison”
HRANA News Agency – Farhnaz Mithaqian, a Bahai from Yazd, began a one-year prison sentence on April 6.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), she is one of 20 Bahais who were arrested in central Iran in August 2012, and has been sentenced to one year in prison plus a one-year suspended sentence.
HRANA News Agency – Officials at the public cemetery in Tabriz, the Wadi-ye Rahmat cemetery, have refused to allow the burial of Mr. Maruwati, a Bahai from Tabriz who died on March 20, 2015.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), on the morning when Mr. Maruwati died, his family took his body to the cemetery for burial. Continue reading “Cemetery Officials in Tabriz Continue to Turn Away Bahais”
HRANA News Agency – Shamim Ettahadi, a Bahai imprisoned in Yazd, has been denied prison furloughs, although he has been imprisoned for almost two years and meets the conditions for furlough.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he was arrested during a raid on his home on March 14, 2013. Continue reading “Shamim Ettahadi Denied Prison Furloughs”
HRANA News Agency – 12 instructors of Erfane Halgheh (Interuniversalism Mysticism) have been sentences to 24 years imprisonment and about 100 Million Tomans Fines.
According to HRANA quoting from Mashregh, 40 followers and instructors of Erfane Halgheh were arrested in a teaching session and 12 of them were prosecuted and sentenced. Continue reading “12 Instructors of Erfane Halghe Received Their Sentences”
HRANA News Agency – Mr. Eyman Rashidi and Mrs. Shabnam Motahed, a Bahai couple from Yazd, were arrested on March 18, and taken to the central prison in Yazd to begin serving their sentences.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mr. Rashidi has been sentenced to three years in prison, and a one year suspended sentence, while Mrs. Motahed has been sentenced to two years in prison and one year suspended.
HRANA News Agency – Faran Hessami, who is in Evin prison serving a four-year sentence for educational activities with the Bahai Open University (BIHE), has been granted a 4-day furlough covering the Naw Ruz period.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), this will enable her to be with her son Artin during the holiday period. Continue reading “Faran Hessami Granted a 4-Day Furlough”
HRANA News Agency – On the morning of March 16, intelligence agents in the city of Shiraz raided the home of Mr. Karamat Amiri, a 62-year old Bahai.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), this is the latest in a series of similar raids on over 20 Bahai homes in the city, during the past month. Continue reading “Another Bahai Home Raided in Shiraz”
HRANA News Agency – A court in Shiraz has handed down another 18-month sentence for Adnan Rahmat-Penah, a Bahai from Shiraz who has served nearly 5 months of a one-year sentence in Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on March 11, the lower court sentenced him to 6 months in prison on charges of insulting the President of Iran and 12 months for preparing and distributing means of evading the filters which the Iranian government has imposed on internet traffic. Continue reading “Adnan Rahmat-Penah Faces a New Sentence”
