Siamak Honrour and Saeed Ittehad were sent to Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz to serve their sentence.

HRANA News Agency – Siamak Honrour and Saeed Ittehad, Baha'i citizens living in Shiraz, were sent to Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz to serve their 31 months and 16 days in prison.

According to HRANA News Agency, the news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, on Sunday, August 29, 1402, Siamak Honrour and Saeed Ittehad went to Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz to serve their sentences.

In November of last year, these citizens were sentenced by the First Branch of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court to 7 months and 16 days of imprisonment each for the charge of "propaganda activity against the regime" and to 31 months and 16 days of imprisonment for the charge of "membership in groups hostile to the regime."

After these sentences were confirmed by Branch 37 of the Fars Provincial Court of Appeal, by applying Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, 31 months and 16 days of imprisonment as the most severe punishment can be applied to each of these Baha'i citizens.

These citizens were arrested by security forces on April 7, 2017, and transferred to solitary confinement in police detention centers under the supervision of the IRGC Intelligence and the Shiraz Ministry of Intelligence detention center. These citizens were finally released on bail in May 2017, temporarily until the end of the trial.

The hearing on the charges against these citizens was held in this branch on October 8, 2021.

Baha'i citizens in Iran are deprived of freedoms related to religious beliefs. This systematic deprivation occurs despite the fact that, according to Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, everyone has the right to freedom of religion and to change their religion with conviction, as well as the freedom to manifest it, either individually or in community with others and in public or in private.

According to unofficial sources, there are more than 300,000 Baha'i citizens in Iran, but the Iranian constitution only recognizes Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, and does not recognize the Baha'i religion. For this reason, the rights of Baha'is in Iran have been systematically violated over the past years.

Source: HRANA