TEHRAN — Five Christian converts arrested in 2012 in Iran went on trial March 10 for leaving Islam and were handed enormous bail terms. A judge in Shiraz set bail at $200,000 for Mohammed Roghangir and $80,000 for the other four. The next date for the trial has not been set.
The five men have been detained since their arrest October 2012 for allegedly “threatening national security” and evangelizing. The hearing took place at the 14th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz, 571 miles south of Tehran.
Police originally arrested the five men and two others at a house prayer service Roghangir was leading. It was part of a larger crackdown against non-Islamic religious groups perceived as posing a threat to the theocratic regime.
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