He was sentenced to a three year-prison term in 2000. Released on bail in 2003, he was imprisoned again in October 2007. Since then, according to the Paris-based press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders, Mr. Baghi has spent more than seventy days in solitary confinement in Evin prison. On December 26th, he suffered a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. He was then taken back to prison.