Farhad Jahanbeygi was the editor-in-chief of Neday-e Jame’e (“Call of Society”), a Kurdish-Persian weekly published in the capital of the western province of Kermanshah. Jahanbeygi is also known by his pen name Miran Bazani.

Farhad Jahanbeygi was summoned to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Center in Kermanshah and arrested for the first time on November 14, 2015. He was released a week later after his interrogation. 

Jahanbeygi was arrested for the second time by agents from the local Kermanshah division of the Ministry of Intelligence, on August 9, 2018. A day after his arrest, security forces took Jahanbeygi to the Neday-e Jame’e newspaper offices, where they seized and confiscated Jahanbeygi’s personal belongings including his computer, mobile phone and handwritten notes. He was then transferred to Kermanshah Central Prison.

In February 2019, after being imprisoned for about six months, Farhad Jahanbeygi was released from Kermanshah Central Prison. According to local journalists, he was banned from all forms of journalism and media activities as part of the court’s sentence.