Eight Baha’i women arrested to serve prison sentences in Isfahan

Hengaw – Saturday, December 27, 2025

Eight Baha’i women — Shana Shoughifar, Negin Khademi, Neda Badakhsh, Arezoo Sabhanian, Yeganeh Rouhbakhsh, Mojgan Shahrezaei, Parasto Hakim, and Neda Emadi — have been arrested in Isfahan to begin serving prison sentences and transferred to Dolatabad Prison.

According to information received by the Hengaw Human Rights Organization, Khademi (34), Shoughifar (27), Hakim (47), Shahrezaei (32), Rouhbakhsh (19), Sabhanian (48), Badakhsh (60), and Emadi (42) were summoned to Branch 2 of the Enforcement Office of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court on Saturday, December 27, 2025. After appearing, they were taken into custody and transferred to prison.

Simultaneously with their arrest and transfer, the SIM cards of their mobile phones were blocked.

Previously, Branch 1 of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court had sentenced Shoughifar, Khademi, Badakhsh, Sabhanian, Rouhbakhsh, Shahrezaei, and Hakim to 10 years in prison each, while Emadi was sentenced to five years.

These women were initially arrested on October 23, 2023, by security forces and were later released on bail at different times over a two-month period pending completion of legal proceedings.