• <coverage-outsourcing id='30384'> In late October 2017, on the prompting of Baha'u'llah's 200th birthday, a large number of Baha'is were arrested or their workplaces sealed. Meanwhile, the houses of nine Baha'is living in Birjand were investigated by security officials, and their belongings were seized. They were summoned for interrogation twice, and the trial was held on April 21 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30391'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-24514/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Branch 2 of Birjand Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Nabavi, sentenced nine defendants of this case to prison. Atieh Salehi, Ataollah Maleki, Farzaneh Deimi, Nasrin Ghadiri, Banafsheh Mokhtari, Arezoo Mohammadi, Saeed Maleki, and Roya Maleki were sentenced to at least six years in prison (individually) on the charge of "membership in Baha'i groups" (Article 499). IPA assumed that their enforceable sentence was five years by applying Article 134. Rahmatollah Deilami has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for similar charges due to his senility </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>