HRANA News Agency – Shahrukh Ta’if was released from Raja’i Shahr prison this morning, at the end of a 4-year sentence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mr. Ta’if was arrested at his home in Tehran on January 14, 2009 and held for over two months in solitary confinement. He was released on bail on March 18, 2009.
He was sentenced to 4 years in prison for “membership of the Bahai community” and began his sentence in Evin prison on January 17, 2012.
In August that year he was transferred to Raja’i Shahr prison, where many male prisoners of conscience are detained, and remained there until his release today.
