Keyvan Rahimian, a Bahá’í citizen, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison by the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of deviant educational or propagandistic activities conflicting with or contrary to the sacred laws of Islam and society, as well as collusion to commit crimes against national security.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Keyvan Rahimian, an Iranian Bahá’í, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, 6 years of deprivation of social rights, and a cash fine.
Based on a verdict issued by the Fifteenth Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court that was served to Mr. Rahimian, this Iranian Bahá’í has been sentenced to five years in prison, six years of deprivation of social rights, and fifty million tomans fine for the charge of “deviant educational or propagandistic activities conflicting with or contrary to the sacred laws of Islam,” and for the charge of “collusion to commit crimes against national security,” he has been sentenced to four years in prison.
If this sentence is upheld in the appeals stage, the stricter punishment, meaning five years of imprisonment, will be applicable to him.
The trial on the charges against this Bahá’í citizen was held on Saturday, January 6th, 2024.
Mr. Rahimian was arrested by security forces in Tehran and then transferred to Evin Prison on July 18th, 2023.
On Saturday, November 25th, 2024, this Bahá’í citizen was temporarily released to attend his mother’s funeral from Evin Prison, and on the November 29, he returned to Evin Prison at the end of his short leave.
On October 30, 2023, Keyvan Rahimian’s detention was renewed for the fourth consecutive month.
Keyvan Rahimian, a faculty member of the Bahá’í Virtual University of Iran, has previously been detained and imprisoned. He was released from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj after serving five years of imprisonment in 2017.