Iranian Baha’i Zabihollah Raoufi, was taken to Sanandaj prison to serve his one year imprisonment sentence. He was sentenced to one Year of imprisonment and one year of exile to Minab by the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj in December 2015 on charges of propaganda against the state and acting against national security through the promotion of Baha’ism.
Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN) has been informed that the preliminary verdict against the above-mentioned prisoner was just confirmed by Branch 4 of the Sanandaj Appeal Court this August. On Wednesday, November 1, this citizen was arrested after being summoned to Sanandaj Judiciary and imprisoned to serve his sentence.
Zabiullah Raoufi was arrested in his home on September 8, 2015 by security forces and transferred to Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Centre in the city of Sanandaj. He was temporarily released on a bail of 30 million Toman six days later.
The hearing of this prisoner was held in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on Dec 14, 2015, and he was sentenced to a one-year imprisonment and one year of exile to the Minab on the charge of propaganda against the state and acting against national security through the promotion of Baha’ism .
Zabihollah Raoufi was also detained in 2009 and sentenced to a year in prison on the same charge of propaganda against the state. This sentence was reduced to six months of imprisonment and six months of exile to Tuyserkan, in Hamedan Province by the Court of Appeals. He was transferred to Tuyserkan Prison to serve his one year imprisonment and exile in November 2009.
It is worth mentioning that Parvaneh Rahmani (Raoufi’s wife) was arrested in December 2015 along with her husband and faced one year in prison on the same charge by the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj.
