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The Last Word: Unspeakable Cruelty
Author:Jeremy Jones28/07/2009
Jeremy Jones
When speaking with a leader of the Baha’i community in Australia recently, our conversation inevitably turned to events in Iran.
In May 2008, seven leaders of this community were seized from their families, imprisoned and faced allegations of grave seriousness.
For 15 months, there have been regular indications that trials [...]
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Who is “spreading corruption on earth”?
Come Thursday, six of the members of the ad hoc group that coordinated the life of the Baha’i community of Iran – the Yaran – will have been in jail for exactly a year. They are Mrs Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr Afif Naemi, Mr Saeid Rezaie, Mr Behrouz [...]
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The Bahá’í World News Service’s Iran Update has just been updated. I’m both angry and deeply concerned to learn that:
The seven members of the committee that sees to the minimum needs of the 300,000-member Baha’i community of Iran are still being held by the government. No formal charges have been filed against them, and none [...]
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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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