Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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The excellent Iran Press Watch continues to keep us informed about the gravely worrying developments for the beleaguered Baha’i community in Iran. Yesterday they provided a headline round-up of the latest arrests and other concerns;
Mr. Afshin Ehsanian is arrested in Shiraz on charges of “being a Baha’i”.
Ms. Sahba Khademi, a 24-year old Baha’i is seized [...]
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This week’s Reporting Religion on the BBC World Service (25 May 2008) includes an interview with a UK Bahá’í whose cousin is one of the Bahá’í leaders recently arrested in Iran.
On Reporting Religion this week we examine what life is like in Iran if you follow the Baha’i faith. We hear from one woman whose [...]
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There’s been a lot of activity overnight. Here are some links you might like to follow to stories, comments and statement on the arrest of the 6 members of the “Friends in Iran”, the informal Bahá’í coordinating group.
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Statement by the US State Department
LA Times blog
The Grieboski Report
CNN
Amnesyt International Statement in Payvand’s [...]
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The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has posted a story about yesterday’s arrests of the leading members of the Iranian Bahá’í community.
While the detainees have all been regularly summoned, detained, and interrogated as individuals, this is the first time they have been seized as a group. The entire leadership body of the [...]
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All seven Bahá’ís who form a group that sees to the needs of the Bahá’í community of Iran have been arrested, six of them in early-morning raids on 14 May 2008 at their homes in Tehran. They are, seated from left, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Saeid Rezaie, and, standing, Fariba Kamalabadi, Vahid Tizfahm, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif [...]
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The six of the seven members of the Friends in Iran, the informal group that coordinates Bahá’í activities in Iran in the absence of the formal Bahá’í administration, were all arrested in the early hours of this morning (14 May).
The Universal House of Justice, the world governing council of the Bahá’í Faith, has just sent [...]
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