HRANA News Agency – Ali Jahanian and his wife, Fereshteh Souri, have each been sentenced to one year in prison by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Nahavand.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, the couple was convicted of “propaganda against the regime” and sentenced to serve their terms in Nahavand Prison. However, the court acquitted them of the charge of “forming a group to disrupt national security.”
Their trial was held in late January 2025, and the verdict was issued and formally communicated to them on March 10, 2025.
Jahanian and Souri were originally arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents on September 9, 2024, at their home in Nahavand. While Souri was released on bail after several hours of interrogation, she was rearrested on September 11 and later transferred to Malayer Prison.
Both were eventually released on bail on November 11, 2024. A source close to their family told HRANA that Fereshteh Souri was subjected to verbal abuse and physical violence during her interrogations at the Intelligence Ministry’s detention facility.
Ali Jahanian, a poet and political activist from Nahavand, has been previously arrested due to his activism.