Meeting with Behzad Zabihih

"Meeting" is a short narrative about those whose lives are confined to a four-walled space called prison. In each segment of this program, we visit one of those who are referred to as 'political-prisoners' by human rights organizations. He is 50 years old and from Sari; before his arrest and the sealing of his shop, he owned an optical shop in Sari and was simultaneously a philosophy and logic professor at the online university of Bahá'ís. He is currently in Sari prison while having been arrested multiple times in recent years, and his shop has been sealed three times. Behzad Zabihih was arrested on March 9, 2016, with a new case being formed against him, and on the same day, his shop was sealed. He was released a week later on a bail of 90 million tomans, but summonses and interrogations continued until January 2017, when the first branch of the Revolutionary Court in Sari sentenced him to one year in prison and two years of exile to the city of Heris in East Azerbaijan province. The charges against Behzad Zabihih, like those of other Bahá'í citizens who have been arrested and sentenced over the past four decades, include propaganda against the regime and promoting the Bahá'í faith.