HRANA News Agency – Peyman Kashfi Nejafabadi, a Baha’i prisoner of conscience from Tehran who has served a four-year sentence in Evin and Raja`i Shahr prisons, has been released at the end of his sentence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he was summoned and arrested in Tehran on October 19, 2009, and held incommunicado in section 209 of Evin Prison for two months.
He was later granted bail. In July 2010, Judge Muhammad Maqiseh, presiding over branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, sentenced him to 4 years in prison on a charge of being part of an illegal assembly.
When the written sentence was handed down, the charges had been changed to establishing a group seeking to disturb security.
This sentence was upheld by the review court. He began his sentence on February 14, 2011, first in Evin prison and then, from August 5, 2012, in block 12 at Raja’i Shahr prison in Karaj, just west of Tehran, where most of the Yaran (Baha’i national facilitators), and a number of teachers from the Bahai Open University are also held.
