HRANA – Mahnoush Abdollahi, a resident of Shiraz, has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Fars Province Court of Appeals, with six years of the sentence suspended.

According to HRANA, Ms. Abdollahi received a total prison sentence of nine years from the appeals court. Based on the verdict, she was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and four years suspended imprisonment on the charge of cultural, media, and promotional activities in support of the Israeli regime; one year in prison for propaganda against the regime; and two years of suspended imprisonment for insulting the sacred.

In the initial trial, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court had sentenced her to five years in prison for cultural, media, and promotional activities in support of the Israeli regime, and one year in prison for propaganda against the regime.

In a separate part of her case, the Criminal Court sentenced her to two years of suspended imprisonment for insulting the sacred.

Ms. Abdollahi was arrested on July 2, 2025, and later released on July 14, 2025, from Adelabad Prison in Shiraz after posting bail of 2.5 billion tomans.

Mahnoush Abdollahi is 42 years old and resides in Shiraz.

Over the past decade, the Iranian Bahá’í community has been disproportionately targeted by Iran’s security forces and judiciary, more than any other minority group. In the past three years, an average of 72 percent of the reports on religious rights violations collected by HRANA have documented the Iranian regime’s repression of the Bahá’í community.