Mahmoud Mardani

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Date of Detainment: December//2021

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Mahmoud Mardani

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Mahmoud Mardani is imprisoned for his religious conversion and activity. 

In December 2021, plainclothes intelligence agents arrested Mardani, a Christian convert from Islam, and his brother while raiding a Christmas gathering in Fooladshahr. He was released on bail. 

In January 2025, Judge Mohammad Ali Abbasi of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to 4 years' imprisonment, with 5 years' deprivation of social rights and a fine of 150 million tomans for "propaganda against the regime through promoting Christianity."