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 72 Details

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