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.

She was charged with propaganda against the regime and membership of Bahai organisations, and was originally sentenced to three years in prison, reduced by the court of review to one year.