CCPR/C/125/D/2439/2014 the Iranian authorities during the time leading up to his departure from the Islamic Republic of Iran, it also could not find as a fact that he had been prosecuted in connection with those problems. It further observed that, at the Board hearing of 16 January 2013, the author had produced three documents, which appeared to be two notices to appear and a judgment in absentia sentencing him, inter alia, to eight years’ imprisonment for the sale of satellite dishes.17 The author declared that his parents had received those documents prior to his departure in November 2011, without his knowledge. The Board held that the most recent production of a new judgment for the same matter, 18 which was allegedly delivered more than one and a half years after the judgment produced in January 2013, contradicts the author’s statement that he had already been sentenced in absentia for the relevant matter prior to his departure. Moreover, according to the most recently produced judgment, he had been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a fine for that same matter, while for the other matter – the finding of, inter alia, pornography, which he had not mentioned previously – he had allegedly been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, 74 lashes and a fine. Lastly, the document indicates that the sentence was pronounced on 27 July 2013, while the author only produced the document in connection with the submission of his communication to the Committee almost one year later, namely, on 4 July 2014. The author has not provided any explanation for this. 4.4 Consequently, the Board considered that the judgment transmitted together with the request to reopen the case appeared to have been fabricated for the occasion. Background information attests that forged documents, including judgments and other court documents, are widespread and easy to obtain in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 19 Based on the above, the Board found no reason to request an assessment of the authenticity of the document produced by the author. 4.5 As to the conversion of the author, the Board pointed to discrepancies between, on the one hand, his declarations in his communication to the Committee and in his request to reopen proceedings and, on the other, his statements in the asylum registration report prepared by the Danish National Police, his asylum application form, his interview with the Danish Immigration Service and the brief submitted by his assigned counsel. These discrepancies relate to the period of time during which he participated in church activities. Moreover, the Danish pastor’s statement of 26 June 2014 fails to confirm the statement by the author that he started to participate regularly in church services and lessons in Christianity five months after his entry into Denmark, namely, a whole year earlier, and that he had participated in Bible classes for four months prior to his baptism. 20 4.6 The Board then assessed whether, as a result of those activities, the author had been profiled by the Iranian authorities to such an extent that he would be at risk of abuse in case of return. It took into account the Facebook postings and the hate emails received by the author, as well as the harassment and threats received by his family from the Iranian authorities, who declared that the author would be killed upon his return to the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, the author failed to render probable that he had been exposed to the Iranian authorities and would be at a specific and individual risk of persecution for that reason in the event of his return to his country of origin. 17 18 19 20 The judgment of 16 September 2011 and the two notices to appear dated 2 May 2011 and 26 June 2011. The judgment of 24 July 2013. Memorandum of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Udenrigsministeriet) concerning forged and false documents from the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2 September 2013. According to the State party, the memorandum mentions, inter alia, that it is easy to illegally obtain summonses and to forge summonses by erasing information in the summons and adding new details. In principle, this applies to all legal documents and documents issued by an authority, including court orders and judgments and, according to the source of the report published by the Danish Immigration Service, there is a relatively high occurrence of forged documents in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The author did not mention his interest in Christianity when interviewed by the Danish Immigration Service. Before the Board, he explained that he did not have any particular knowledge about Christianity at that time or documents proving his interest. He thus feared that the Danish authorities would consider his interest a lie. 5