Additional Name(s): Soroush Eqani

Gender: Male

Current Location: Adel Abad Prison, Shiraz

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Bahá`í

Appeal: Reduced to 6 Months' Imprisonment

Sentence: Originally 2 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: January/14/2024

Date of Sentencing: June//2023

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religious Belief Religious Identity

Nature of Charges: Illegal Assembly

Soroush Iqani

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Soroush Iqani is imprisoned for his religious identity.

In June 2023, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced Iqani, an Iranian Baha'i, to two years in prison on charges of "gathering and collusion against the security of the country." The punishment also included a two-year ban from leaving the country and a two-year mandatory residence in Mehriz. 

On an unspecified date, an appeals court reduced Iqani's sentence to six months in prison.

On January 14, 2024, authorities arrested Iqani and later took him to Adel Abad prison in Shiraz to begin serving his six-month sentence. 

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