• <coverage-outsourcing id='26059'> Behnam Eskandarian, Ardeshir Fanayian and Yalda Firoozian were arrested in Semnan and sent to the city’s intelligence ministry detention house. Charges of “acting against the Islamic Republic by propaganda and organization” and “membership in an illegal organization against national security” was read against them </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26060'> According to IranWire, six days after three Baha’i citizens were arrested, Behnam Eskandarian was sent to the quarantine section of the Semnan prison. One of the prisoners there, thinking that Behnam Eskandarian is a person called Vahid who had murdered her mother joined another prison to beat him up badly. They took him back and forth a few times between the open air section and the cell and the beating continued for hours. Based on this report, guards and security forces were witnesses to the clash but didn’t do anything. The two prisoners forced Behnam Eskandarian to contact his family and ask for 20 million rials. “After a few hours, Behnam was sent to the prison clinic and, while suffering from blood and pain, was chained to the bed and pressured to confess that he wanted to committ suicide and that all his marks were self-inflicted and no one else had cuased them.” He was then returned to the intelligence detention house in Semnan. When the family found out, they requested medical treatment and examination but the deputy prosecutor, violating the article 51 of the penal code, said medical examination can only happen if requested by the prisoner. 75 days later, he was sent to the forensics for examination. Despite the delay, “the initial forensics report established 13 injury marks caused by two rounds of assault (one causing 10, the other 3) including breaking of head, black marks around the eye and, inflation of the ear. The internal ear had so much inflation that it couldn’t be examined. The forensics explicitly denied any self-infliction of injuries.” The intelligence ministry forces denied him from meeting his family or phone contact with them for a long time. According to IranWire, the case interrogator is Hojatolesalm Rame and those arrested have been deprived of legal representation from the time of arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26062'> He was transferred to Semnan prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27384'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/Bahaei.pdf'> Ardeshir Fanayian, Behnam Eskandarian and Yalda Firoozian were sentenced to prison by the Branch One of Semnan’s Revolutionary Court. Mr Fanayian got a 10 year discretionary sentence on the charge of “forming and running an opposition group,” one year prison in Khash County and one year of ban from residing in Semnan Province and one year of prison on the charge of “propaganda against the regime”. Ms Firoozian and Mr Eskandarian were convicted of “membership in opposition groups” and sentenced to five years in prison and two years ban of residing in Semnan Province and also convicted of “propaganda against the regime” which led to a discretionary one-year prison sentence. The verdict also says that all their digital devices and their personal belongings related to the case that has been seized by Semnan’s intelligence authorities will be confiscated according to Article 215 of Islamic Penal code. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26066'> According to Iranwire, Behnam Eskandarian and Ardeshir Fanayian are kept in Semnan’s Central Prison in a cell separated from other prisoners </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28015'> <reference source='https://www.kampain.info/archive/40436.htm'> According to Political and Civil Prisoners defending Campaign, Semnan city Appeal court reduced the sentences of Ardeshir Fanaian, Behnam Eskandarian, and Yalda Firouzian to six years, three years and six months, and two years and six months, respectively </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>