HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Akrami Pour, Sunni prisoner in Rajae Shahr prison in Karaj was sentenced to 15 years in prison after 29 months of uncertainty by branch 28 of Tehran’s revolutionary court without a lawyer.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Akrami Pour, son of Mashallah, Sunni prisoner in Rajae Shahr prison in Karaj who had been arrested on November 28, 2013, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after 29 months of uncertainty by branch 28 of Tehran’s revolutionary court.
The trial headed by judge Mogheyseh had been held unlawfully and without the defendant’s attorney. “Muharebeh” and “propaganda against the system” were raised as his charges and “conversion from Shi’ism to Sunnism” and “propagating Sunni religion” as the examples of these charges.
15 year in prison verdict was announced to the prisoner this week. The verdict is in the preliminary stages, and Mr. Akrami Pour has 20 days to appeal.
Mohammad Akrami Pour with a bachelor of political science from Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, used to live in Tehran.
He was arrested on November 28, 2013 and was transferred to ward 209 of Evin prison and was interrogated for three months and 20 days in solitary confinement. Major charges and pressure on the prisoner were because of his conversion to Sunnism.
The Sunni prisoner currently is held in ward 12 of Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.
Mohammad Akrami Pour Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison







