Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz sentences Five Baha’is to 10-month imprisonment.
Haleh Houshmandi, Keyvan Karami, Farham (Hadi) Masoumi, Afshin Ahsanian and Vahdat Dana have each been sentenced to 10 months in prison by branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz.
According to Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), Houshmandi and Masoumi have a prior one year suspended term related to their work in a UNICEF sponsored program for street and poor children in the low-income neighborhoods of Shiraz. The group of 54 Bahai’s who worked as social workers within the program had all been arrested in May of 2006 and subsequently tried for undertaking propaganda activities against the system.
Raisee and Dadfar, the two lawyers representing the defendants plan to appeal the verdicts- which were conveyed to them over the phone- but have to wait to receive official notice of the ruling.
Haleh Houshmandi, Keyvan Karami, Farham (Hadi) Masoumi and Afshin Ahsanian were arrested in the winter of 2009 while Vahdat Dana was arrested April 5, 2009.
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