Kourush Ziari released after 5 years without furlough

Payam News (Facebook), October 20, 2017.

Kourush Ziari (کوروش زیاری), a Bahai from Gonbad-e Qabus in North-eastern Iran, was released on October 19 at the end of a 5-year sentence, most of which he served in Raja’i Shahr prison near Tehran. He was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in Gonbad-e Qabus on October 17, 2012, and interrogated at the Ministry of Intelligence interrogation centres in Gorgan and then in Gonbad. In the company of six other Bahai prisoners in Gorgan, he was transferred to Evin Prison in Tehran and finally to Raja’i Shahr prison, on December 22, 2012. All seven were charged with propaganda against regime, collaborating with hostile governments and and membership of the secret Bahai organisation. He never received any prison furlough, despite being imprisoned far from his home. In July, 2015, he was taken to a hospital for treatment required because an injury he had at the time of his arrest had been left untreated, leading to diverse ailments. Two other Bahai men in this group, Fahrmand Sana’i ( فرهمند ثنایی) and Kamal Kashani (کمال کاشانی ), from Gorgan, were released on September 20.

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