HRANA News Agency – Riaz’ullah Sobhani, a Bahai who taught classes for the Bahai Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), was released from Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj yesterday at the end of a four-year sentence.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), he was arrested on June 14, 2011, not long after security forces raided premises and homes relating to the Institute for Higher Education.

He was tried and sentenced in Tehran by Judge Moqiseh.

The BIHE is a distance-learning institute which serves students who are excluded from tertiary study in Iran because they are Bahais.