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[Iran Human Rights Voice] Five Bahai adherents residing in the city of Shiraz, Haleh Houshmandi, Kayvan Karami, Farham (Hadi) Maasoumi, Afshin Ahsanian and Vahdat Dana, each received a ten-month jail sentencing from branch one of the Revolutionary Court in this city, after they were charged with spreading propaganda against the regime.
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[Iran Press Watch] 5 Baha'i Residents of Shiraz Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison: HRANA - According to the Committee of Human Rights Activists, 5 Baha'i residents of Shiraz, Haleh Hooshmandi, Keyvan Karami, Farham (Hadi) Masoomi, Afshin Ahsanian and Vahdat Dana, were tried by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of .
[The Muslim Network for Baha'i Rights] 3 Baha'i Youth Imprisoned in Shiraz!: While according to laws in Iran these sentences are unenforceable, on Monday, November 19, one of the governmental departments summoned the three named Bahai youth on the pretext that their personal belonging was to be returned. However, upon arriving, instead they discovered that they were being arrested for dispatch to Adel-Abad Prison for the execution of their sentence of four years.
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[Out of my Mind Blog] Text of House Resolution Condemning Persecution of Iranian Baha'is ...: Taqva reportedly was detained while .of thousands of Baha'is in the Middle East are persecuted for their religious beliefs.
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[Barnabas quotidianus] Baha'is in Iran under increasing pressure: Official efforts to identify and monitor Bahá’Ãs and their activities, last year’s imprisonment of national Baha’i leaders, an orchestrated campaign of hate propaganda in the state-run news media that demonizes Baha’is, and a general upsurge in violence against Baha’is and their property undoubtedly perpetrated by agents of the Iranian authorities – these trends, when considered in the context of a known government plan for the quiet elimination of the Baha’i community as a viable entity, cannot and must not go unheeded and unprotested if the international community is to adhere to the promise it raised of “Never Again”
[International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran] International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Report on the ...: Bahareh Hedayat,8 a student and womens rights activist, was initially sentenced to a two year suspended prison sentence (a probationary sentence that can be changed to a prison term at any time) for the period of five years,9 which was upheld by the appeals court. Masoumeh Zia was initially sentenced by the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Courts to a one-year mandatory prison sentence and a three million Rials (approximately $300) fine by the 1060 Branch of the Tehran Public Court in lieu of lashings and imprisonment.10 The appeals court reduced the initial prison sentence to a one year suspended prison sentence for the period of three years and reduced the fine to two Million Rials (approximately $200).
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