Sarang Etehadi begins a one-year sentence

HRANA News Agency – Mr. Sarang Etehadi has been summoned to begin serving his one-year prison sentence on charges of “propaganda against the state through participation in Bahai worship and prayer groups.”

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA),   he had been instructed via a telephone call from the Evin Prison Courts on July 6, 2014, to appear to begin serving his sentence within a week.

His wife, Nasim Ashrafi, began serving her sentence at Evin Prison on May 6, 2014. The couple, both from Tehran, were arrested in a wave of detentions of Bahais in Tehran, Mashhad and Shiraz in early July, 2012.

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