According to reports received by IranWire, Nahaleh Shahidi has been ordered to present herself to the Kerman Revolutionary Court on June 2 to begin serving her term.
Shahidi, a resident of Karaj, had traveled to Kerman during the Nowruz holidays in 2023 to visit her brother. On March 28, 2023, as she was returning home at the train station, she was detained by agents of the Kerman IRGC Intelligence Organization. The agents initially told her that "she needed to answer a few questions before leaving," but the Baha'i citizen was subsequently placed under arrest, and her electronic devices, including her mobile phone, were confiscated.
Simultaneously, security forces went to her residence in Karaj without her presence, searched the house, and confiscated her religious books and personal photographs. She was held in detention for 9 months and 4 days without a trial before being temporarily released on property bail valued at 1.2 billion tomans.
Shahidi's court of first instance was held in Kerman in August 2025, where she was sentenced to six years of discretionary imprisonment, a verdict that was later upheld in its entirety by the Kerman Provincial Appeals Court.
According to the report, the appeals court only permitted Ms. Shahidi's lawyer to view the verdict, strictly prohibiting them from taking physical delivery of the document, taking notes, or photographing it. Because a physical copy of the appeals court's ruling is a mandatory requirement for filing a judicial review request with the Supreme Court, the Baha'i citizen's motion for a retrial was rejected due to the unavailability of the text. Consequently, her six-year prison sentence has reached the enforcement stage.
