BY KISHAN MANOCHA (Wall Street Journal – 17 Dec 2010) Seven former leaders of the Bahai community in Iran are in their first year of a decade of unjust incarceration. They were arrested in mid-2008,…
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Legal questions over Iran Bahá'í trial
The Guardian, Saturday 9 October 2010 On 8 August it was reported that seven Iranian citizens – Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm and Mahvash Sabet – had been sentenced…
Committee of Human Rights Reporters: Temporary detention of Baha’i leaders was “illegal”
(CHRR 8-Aug-2010) The Committee of Human Rights Reporters announced that seven former administrators of the Baha’i community were each sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court. They are detained for…