According to information received by IranWire, the Mashhad Revolutionary Court has sentenced two Baha'i citizens, who were arrested in January and February, to imprisonment and supplementary penalties.
According to an informed source, based on the verdict issued by the 5th Branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, Rabih Maleki Nameghi, who was arrested during the January 8 protests in the city, appeared in court and was tried a month ago.
The verdict issued for this Baha'i citizen states that he has been sentenced to ten months in prison on the charge of "propaganda activity against the regime," four years and six months in prison on the charge of "assembly and collusion," and twenty months in prison on the charge of "insulting the Supreme Leader."
Under the country's sentence-merging laws, the maximum enforceable punishment among these is three years and six months of imprisonment, which has reportedly been suspended for five years.
Concurrently, another Baha'i citizen, Barsa Maleki Nameghi, who was arrested in Mashhad on January 22, was sentenced by the 1st Branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court to two years and one day in prison, a fine of eighty million and one rial, and a six-year deprivation of social rights on the charge of "educational and propaganda activity against Sharia."
During the January protests, at least seven Baha'i citizens were arrested in Mashhad. IranWire sources state that the court hearings for the remaining detained citizens are reportedly scheduled to take place next week.
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