by Barney on 31 January 2010

Regular visitors to Barnabas Quotidianus will have noticed the decreasing frequency of posts.
Sadly, I’ve run out of blogging energy and imagination – for the time being, at least. So, rather than pretend to myself that I’m going to be writing something soon, I’ve decided to acknowledge the reality and give myself time off from BQ. [...]
by Barney on 13 January 2010

Yesterday we found out that the seven pictured above, the former ad hoc coordinating group for the Baha’is in Iran, had gone on trial. They’d been held without formal charge in Evin Prison in Tehran since Spring 2008. Iranian government-sponsored media repeated the charges against the Baha’is:
espionage,
“propaganda activities against the Islamic order,”
the establishment of an [...]