Hamadan Court Has Sentenced Ten Baha’is to Imprisonment and Exile

Source: BahaiNews¹

Translation by Iran Press Watch

According to “BahaiNews” and based on judicial authorities’ assertion, on July 29^th 2015 ten Baha’i citizens were sentenced to imprisonment and exile.

Again according to a reliable source, ten Baha’is were sentenced to ten years imprisonment; two of them were further sentenced to two years exile to the port city of Khash.

The same source mentioned that “Previously the judicial authority had indicated that due to a lack of sufficient evidence, these people would be acquitted.”

According to the same source, Shaheen Rashedi, Atefeh Zahedi, Romina Tabibi, Mina Hemati, Parvaneh Ayyoubi, Mozaffar Ayyoubi, Farideh Ayyoubi and Mehran Khandel were sentenced to one year of incarceration each. Masoud Azarnoush and Hamid Azarnoush were sentenced to one year in prison and two years of exile to Khash each.

After one month these Baha’is will be available to be released on bail.

Previously, “BahaiNews” has reported the news of the arrests and judicial process of these Baha’is from Hamadan.

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1. “BahaiNews” is an independent non-Bahá’í initiative and is not affiliated with any Baha’i institutions.