Three Christians Summoned to Serve Prison Sentences
Amin Khaki, Milad Goodarzi, and Alireza Nourmohammadi, Christians, have been summoned through a notification to serve their prison sentences. According to this notification, they are required to present themselves to the Karaj Court Enforcement Office on Wednesday, November 9. These citizens were previously sentenced to three years imprisonment each by Branch 12 of the Alborz Province Court of Appeals.
According to Hrana news agency, citing Article 18, Amin Khaki, Milad Goodarzi, and Alireza Nourmohammadi, Christians, have been summoned through a notification to serve their prison sentences.
Based on this notification, these citizens are required to present themselves to the Karaj Court Enforcement Office on Wednesday, November 9.
These Christian citizens, in November 2020, after being summoned to judicial authorities and their cases being opened, were each released on bail of 250 million tomans.
Amin Khaki, Milad Goodarzi, and Alireza Nourmohammadi, on July 26 of this year, in the primary stage by Branch 4 of the Karaj Revolutionary Court, on charges of “deviant propagandistic and educational activities contrary to the sacred Islamic law,” were each sentenced to five years of imprisonment and 40 million tomans in fines.
These citizens were ultimately sentenced to three years imprisonment each by Branch 12 of the Alborz Province Court of Appeals.
It should be noted that although Christians are recognized as a religious minority under law, security apparatus follow the issue of Muslims converting to Christianity with particular sensitivity and employ forceful treatment against activists in this field.
Treatment of Christians in Iran occurs while, according to Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, every person has the right to freedom of religion and to change religion with conviction, as well as the freedom to express it individually or collectively, and publicly or in private.
Source: Hrana
