Roya Malakouti Kashefi

Roya Malakouti is a Bahai citizen living in Mashhad. She was arrested and sentenced to prison for her faith.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='56583'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/2s464hz4'> After being summoned and presenting herself to the Mashhad Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, she was arrested and transferred to Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad. According to IranWire, Golnoush Nasiri, Noushin Mesbah, Azita Foroughi, Nasim Sabeti, Roya Navazi, Farideh Moradi, Shohreh Salekian and Soheila Ahmadi were also summoned to branch 903 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office at the same time as Roya Malakouti. According to this report, Ali Soleimani summoned her to his office and interrogated her for several hours. Ali Soleimani named eight other citizens and informed them that they will be released and summoned by phone soon and if they do not answer the phone call, he will issue a warrant to search their homes. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56584'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/4mz7jfeu'> IranWire wrote that Roya Malakouti is in limbo in Vakil Abad prison. According to the report of IranWire, the fifth branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court mentioned the accusations of Roya Malakouti as acts against the country's security and activities in the direction of "social development with the aim of propagating Bahaism" and an arrest warrant was issued by this branch. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56585'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/bdezx8wr'> IranWire wrote that after more than 45 days, Roya Malakouti is still under temporary detention. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56589'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/r5kyuza9'> While announcing the continuation of Roya Malakouti's detention, IranWire wrote that in the past days, the case of this citizen was transferred from Branch 903 to Branch 1 of Mashhad Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Mansouri. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56591'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-44106/'> HRANA wrote that according to the notification that was received by Roya Ghane and Soheila Ahmadi, they must appear on the 12th of October to deal with their charges in Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad headed by Hadi Mansouri. According to this source, the trial of Roya Malakouti on October 7, Golnoush Nasiri and Farideh Moradi's court on October 11, and Noushin Mesbah's court on October 14 will be held in this branch. According to HRANA's report, during the investigation process, the accusation against these citizens is called "social action to propagate the false Bahai sect" and disrupting the country's national security. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56593'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/yz7xntpa'> According to IranWire, the trial session of Roya Malakouti was held with her and her lawyer in the first branch of Mashhad Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mansouri. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56597'> <reference source='https://www.bic.org/sites/default/files/pdf/iran/twenty-six_bahais_in_iran_sentenced_to_126_years_in_prison_-persian.pdf'> In a press release, Bahai World Community reported the increase in persecution of Bahais in Iran. In this statement, Simin Fahandezh, the spokesperson of the Bahai World Community in Geneva, said: > By increasing the harassment against Bahai women in this country, the government of Iran shows more and more that all Iranians are in a similar effort to achieve equality and freedom, and this truth is correctly depicted in the #Dastan_Ma_Yekist campaign. This campaign is the Bahai community's response to the Iranian government's decades of efforts to spread hatred and division, and shows the fruitlessness of efforts to create distance between Bahais and others. If the Islamic Republic can learn a lesson from its 44 years of oppression, it is that the ceaseless suppression of the Bahais has had the opposite effect, it has increased awareness about the situation of the Bahais, created a stronger solidarity between the Bahai community and the people of Iran, and the Bahais' innocence in the face of oppression. It has proved its relentlessness to the international community. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56596'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/5bc3dncv'> Eight Bahai citizens were sentenced to a total of 32 years and 4 months in prison by the First Branch of Mashhad Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Hadi Mansouri. According to HRANA, Roya Malakouti was sentenced to six years in prison for the charge of forming and managing a group with the intention of disrupting the country's security, and eight months in prison for the charge of propaganda against the state. Also, according to the report of IranWire, Soheila Ahmadi, Roya Ghane, Golnoush Nasiri, Noushin Mesbah, Nasim Sabeti, Azita Foroughi, and Farideh Moradi were each sentenced to three years in prison for membership of a group to disrupt the country's security and for propaganda against the state has been sentenced to eight months of imprisonment, and if the verdict is confirmed in the appeal, three years of imprisonment will be applicable for each of them. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56600'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-46556/'> According to HRANA, the decision of the first court against Roya Malakouti was confirmed by Branch 35 of the Court of Appeal of Khorasan Razavi province. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56601'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/periodical/a-158/'> On the eve of International Women's Day, HRANA published a list of political and ideological prisoners in Iranian prisons. Roya Malakouti was one of the women political prisoners who are serving their time in Vakil Abad prison in Mashhad. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>