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Tens of unknown prisoners of conscience are serving time in different cities of Iran, but only the names of a few of them are mentioned in international human rights courts or the media.
This report will introduce one of these unknown prisoners of conscience, named Farhad Fahandej.
For more than thirty months, every Tuesday six Baha’i families have been traveling to Tehran on a bus or in their personal cars to visit their spouse, father, son or brother at Rajai Shahr prison on Wednesday morning, only to then return to their own cities afterwards.
Farhad Fahandej, Siamak Sadri, Payam Markazi, Foad Fahandej, Kamal Kashani and Farahmand Sanai are six Baha’i prisoners from Gorgan who have been exiled to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj to serve their sentences.
Together with two other Baha’i citizens from Tehran and Gonbad Kavoos, these six Baha’i citizens were tried at branch twenty-eight of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Moghiseh, faced with different charges such as “propaganda against the regime”, “forming and managing the illegal Baha’i organization” and “membership in the illegal Baha’i organization”. The court issued ten-year and five-year sentences against them and all their sentences were confirmed at the appeals court.
Farhad Fahandej, however, has been serving his ten-year sentence at Rajai Shahr Prison – far from his family and his city of residence – while denied the right to any furlough. He was also imprisoned in Golestan Province for five years in the 1980s during the time when many Baha’is were arrested and executed.
Read more at
http://iranpresswatch.org/post/12662/