Source: Golrokh Irani Translation by Iran Press Watch In protest against the government’s devastating treatment of Baha’is in Iran, we are going on a three-day hunger strike for the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December…
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Mahvash Sabet’s Letter from Evin: Islamic Republic “Disqualified” Baha’is for Life
Source: twitter.com Translation By Iran Press Watch When the revolution happened, I was 26 years old. The principal of a school in the south of the capital gave me an order one day. I was…
Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet: A Year in Detention and Counting
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti In a coordinated and organized operation on July 31, 2022, agents of the Intelligence Ministry raided the homes of tens of Baha’is in cities across Iran and arrested a number of Baha’is including…
Iran: authorities must end the persecution of Mahvash Sabet and ensure access to adequate medical care pending her release
Source: www.pen-international.org 22/05: PEN International and the undersigned PEN Centres are outraged to learn that writer and poet Mahvash Sabet was brutally tortured during her interrogation in August 2022 at Evin prison, resulting in both…
Statement by IRFBA Chair Fiona Bruce MP on Iranian Religious Prisoners of Conscience Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi
Source: www.state.gov As Chair of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, I express grave concern over the continuing imprisonment in Iran of two prominent Iranian Baha’is, Mahvash Sabet, an internationally acclaimed poet who is…
Faezeh Hashemi’s Narration Of The “Torture” Suffered by Mahvash Sabet (Baha’i Citizen) While Serving Sentence in Evin Prison.
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former President Rafsanjani, is the highest-ranking figure close to the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran who is critical “oppression against Baha’is”. She…
Iran: Writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet sentenced to ten years in prison
Source: pen-international.org PEN International is outraged by reports that Baha’i writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet was sentenced to ten years in prison. PEN International calls on the Iranian authorities to quash the conviction and…
An Unbelievable Injustice: Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi sentenced to a second decade in prison in Iran
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—11 December 2022—In the midst of increasingly violent and repressive actions by the Iranian authorities against their own citizens, two Baha’i women, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, regarded as symbols of resilience in Iran…
Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, Former Baha’i Leaders, Arrested Again Alongside Others
Source: iranwire.com IranWire has learned that earlier today, 31 July, three members of the long-disbanded Yaran, or “friends” of the Baha’i community in Iran, who until 2008 helped to administer the community’s affairs, were detained. Mahvash…
Freed Iranian Baha’i Leader Mahvash Sabet Describes Unjust Trial, Prison Conditions
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org “We never betrayed our country and never will.” Mahvash Sabet, a leader of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i faith who was released from Evin Prison on September 18, 2017 after completing a 10-year sentence, said she was convicted of espionage…
Beyond Prison Walls: Mahvash Sabet Speaks with France Medias Monde
Source: fa.rfi.fr Editor’s note: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani and Shahram Yazdani translated the poems and Iran Press Watch translated the rest. Mahvash Sabet, a member of the Baha’i Community of Iran, who has been in prison due to her…
English Pen Is Delighted to Welcome the Release of Teacher and Poet Mahvash Sabet After More Than a Decade in Prison
Source: www.englishpen.org Teacher and poet Mahvash Sabet was one of a group of seven Baha’i leaders known as the ‘Yaran-i-Iran’ – ‘Friends of Iran’ – detained in 2008 for their faith and activities related to running…
Mahvash Sabet Concludes 10-Year Prison Sentence
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 September 2017—Mahvash Sabet, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha’is in Iran who were imprisoned due to religious beliefs, has been released after completing her unjust 10-year…
After Eight Years, Mahvash Sabet Shahriari Received a Five-Day Furlough
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Moments ago, Mahvash Shahriari, one of the leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community, after eight years of imprisonment in Evin prison, left for a five-day furlough. According to a…
Take Action for Mahvash Sabet on International Women’s Day
Source: www.pen-international.org ‘Beyond those gates, another world, another race, a people poisoned and oppressed by woe; they stared wearily at us, the prisoners we faced, with sunken eyes, lack-lustre, circled with sorrow’ – extract from ‘From…
Honouring Mahvash Sabet: Acharya Modgala Duguid Reads ‘The Perfume of Poetry’
Source: vimeo.com As part of the #7Bahais7years campaign, Acharya Modgala Duguid of the Amida Trust UK offers a message of support to Mahvash Sabet and oppressed people everywhere. She reads ‘The Perfume of Poetry’ from Mahvash’s…