Additional Name(s): Haideh Ram, هایده رام

Gender: Female

Current Location: Adilabad Prison, Shiraz

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Bahá`í

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 10 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: June/17/2022

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Online Activity Religious Activity Religious Belief

Nature of Charges: Spreading Propaganda & False or Misleading Ideas, Information, or Materials

Hayedeh Ram

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Hayedeh Ram is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In February 2017, intelligence agents of Bushehr province arrested Ram and several other Baha’is.

On an unspecified date, Ram was released on bail.

In May 2021, the Dashtestan Revolutionary Court reportedly sentenced Ram to 12 years and six months in prison for “assisting in propaganda activities against the regime by spreading the beliefs of the Baha’i sect, producing and publishing vulgar images in social media, and acting against national security by publishing the Baha’i sect’s ideas.” Ram would have been expected to serve 10 years in prison as the sentences ran concurrently.

In August 2021, Branch 4 of Bushehr Province Court of Appeals sentenced Ram to 10 years and 9 months in prison for “assisting in propaganda against The Regime through spreading the beliefs of the Baha’i sect, producing and publishing vulgar images in cyberspace and social networks, and acting against the National Security through publishing and propagating the ideology of the Baha’i sect." Ram is expected to serve 10 years in prison as the sentences run concurrently.

On June 17, 2022, Ram was taken into custody to begin serving her sentence at  Adilabad Prison, Shiraz.

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Additional Name(s): Fardin Nadafian Qamsari, فردین ندافیان قمصری

Gender: Male

Current Location: Evin Prison, Tehran

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Bahá`í

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Appeal: Rejected

Sentence: 1 Year's Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: June/18/2022

Date of Release: February//2023

Current Status: Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity Religious Belief

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Fardin Naddafian

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Fardin Naddafian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In 2019, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolution Court reportedly sentenced Naddafian to one year in prison on unspecified charges.

On an unspecified date, an appeals court upheld the verdict.

On June 18, 2022, Naddafian was taken into custody to begin serving his sentence in Evin Prison.

In February 2023, Naddafian was released.

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Additional Name(s): رەناگۈل غېنى, 热纳古丽·艾尼

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 17 Years' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Ethnoreligious Identity Possession of Religious Materials

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Renagul Gheni

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Renagul Gheni is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and religious activity.

In 2018, authorities in Cherchen (Qiemo) county, Bayangol (Bayinguoleng) Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Gheni, an elementary school art teacher and painter, reportedly in relation to prayers she offered at her father's funeral and for possessing a Qur'an. Gheni's arrest came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

On an unspecified date, Gheni was reportedly sentenced to 17 years in prison on unspecified charges.

Gheni is married with two children.

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