Prison Term.

 Long prison term for pregnant Iranian convert.

Three Christian converts, including a woman who is pregnant with her first child, have been given lengthy prison sentences on charges relating to their religious beliefs and worship meetings. The Iranian believers were sentenced at a Revolutionary Court on March 8.

Narges Nasri, who is 37 years old and halfway through her first pregnancy, received the stiffest sentence of the three: ten years for ‘propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law’, five years for membership of an ‘opposition group’ and an additional year for ‘propaganda against the state’. The charges allegedly stemmed from a social media post Narges had made.

Abbas Soori also received a sentence of ten years for ‘propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law’ and an additional five years for membership of an ‘opposition group’. Abbas had been previously accused of distributing propaganda in 2022. As a result of these former charges, rather than being sentenced to prison, he received ten years’ ‘deprivation of social rights’, which carries numerous restrictions relating to areas such as employment, health care and education.

The third accused, Mehran Shamloui, received a term of eight years for spreading propaganda and 30 months for membership of an ‘opposition group’.

 

(Sources: Article 18; Christian Daily International-Morning Star News)