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Ahmad Sarparast

IRAN

CHARGED WITH:
Engaging in propaganda against the state

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In September 2021, Ahmad Sarparast, a member of the Church of Iran, was arrested along with two others during raids on a house-church and another private home in Rasht. He was detained and kept in solitary confinement for two weeks at an unknown location before being transferred to Lakan Prison.
 
In September 2021 Ahmad and one of the others was released on bail. 
 
On 25 January, 2022 Ahmad was charged under Article 500 of the penal code. At a hearing on 17 February, 2022 he denied the charges saying he was “just a Christian worshipping according to the Bible”, and that he “did not engage in any propaganda against the regime or any action against national security”. On 9 April, 2022, Branch 2 of the Rasht Revolutionary Court sentenced Ahmad to five years in prison for “engaging in propaganda against the state” (Article 500 IPC), as well as a fine of 18 million tomans (around $750). 
 
Ahamad appealed his sentence but his appeal was rejected. Other charges were also brought against him, but these were dropped and he is now serving out his 5-year sentence.

Ahmad Sarparast released!

November 14, 2023

Ahmad Sarparast was released late October, along with fellow Church of Iran prisoner Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh, according to Article 18, to serve the remainder of his sentence

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Lakan Prison
Rasht
Islamic Republic of Iran

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