Sasan Haqiri Begins a One-Year Sentence in Isfahan

HRANA News Agency – Mr. Sasan Haqiri, a Bahai from Isfahan, has begun a one-year sentence in the city’s central prison, on charges of propaganda against the regime and society, and conspiracy against national security.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he was one of the Bahais arrested on July 21, 2012, in widespread raids by security forces in cities and towns in Isfahan province. He was sentenced to one year in prison plus a one-year suspended sentence.

The sentence was upheld by the court of review in April, 2014. Mr. Sohrab Naqipour, Mrs. Adhar Pourkhorasand, and Mr. Khosrow Dehqani, who were arrested in the same raids in 2012, have already begun their sentences in Isfahan prison.

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