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…
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Omid Djalili: ‘I’m Taking on the Iranian Government on Behalf of Women. It’s Nutty’
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk By Louisa Peacock 7:30AM BST 04 Jun 2013 British-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili is gearing up to launch Prison Poems tonight, a collection of work written by a former teacher currently behind bars in Iran’s notorious…
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…
She Committed “The Crime of Love Again”
Source: www.bahai.org.au Sydney, 14 May 2015 The first of seven Baha’i leaders to be unjustly imprisoned in 2008 was Mahvash Sabet, a poet whose thoughts and feelings have since inspired people the world over. While in her…
Baha’is over the Last Year – a Return to the Era of the Iranian Revolution
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday, 19 March, 2015 By Kian Sabeti The Iranian Solar Year 1393 (March 2014 – March 2015), witnessed the largest numbers of detained or sentenced and imprisoned Baha’is for…
Alberto Manguel writes an open letter to the poet, imprisoned in Iran for her defence of the Bahá’i Faith
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Mahvash Sabet Source: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/10/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-mahvash-sabet-alberto-manguel Alberto Manguel writes an open letter to the poet, imprisoned in Iran for her defence of the Bahá’i Faith News: Leading authors mount international protest to defend…
A Page from the Forgotten History of the Events Leading to the Detention of the “Yaran-e Iran”; Arrest of Mahvash Sabet
Source: http://goo.gl/cgNOZk Translation by Iran Press Watch By: Kian Sabeti …
The Imprisonment of the Yaran: Mahvash Sabet’s Plight as a Bahá’í in Iran
By Bijan Masumian Bijan Masumian is a Bahá’í living in Texas and the cousin of Mahvash Sabet, a prisoner of conscience in Iran. My cousin, Mahvash Sabet, is now in the women’s ward of Evin Prison,…
Update on the Seven Leading Baha'is Jailed in Iran
The following report was posted by Iran Press News on Saturday, 3 January 2009: Seven leading Baha’is in Iran, namely Mahvash Sabet, Fariba Kamalabadi, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Vahid Tizfahm, Jamaloddin Khanjani and Behrouz Tavakkoli,…
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