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 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."