Name
Charges
Date of arrest
Sentence
City of
arrest
Prison
Status
Notes
Behnam Irani December 2006 December
charged with
2006; April
"national
14, 2010
security crimes".
Found guilty on
February 23,
2008. This
verdict
recommended
prosecutor
pursue apostasy
death sentence.
January 2011 convicted of
"action against
the order" &
"national
security threat".
February 23, Karaj
2008, 5-year
suspended
sentence;
January 2011,
1-year
sentence.
After serving
almost the
entire year,
told must also
serve 5 year
from previous
suspended
sentence from
2008 verdict.
Ghezal
Hezar
Serving sentence
* In poor health and not
receiving proper medical
treatment.
Farshid Fathi
Malayeri
Six years
prison
Evin
In prison serving sentence. On
5 February 2012, Pastor Fathi
Malayeri, was tried before the
Revolutionary Court in Evin
Prison. On 22 February 2012,
his six years sentence was
upheld by the by the Iranian
Revolutionary Court.
* Asked not to make
public* Paid over $400K
for bail. Fathi was detained
without an indictment for
16 months, and kept in
solitary confinement most
of those months. Fathi’s
lawyer was deprived of full
access to his client’s case:
“When the lawyer went to
court they wouldn’t give
him the file … Until … a
few days [before the trial]
they gave him the file, but
not even the full file.”
“Actions against 26-Decnational security, 2010
being in contact
with enemy
foreign
countries,
religious
propaganda” -part of the
evidence offered
at trial was
having Farsi
language Bibles,
unlawful
distribution of
Bibles, and
possessing
Christian
literature
Tehran
A/HRC/22/56
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