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Open letter to the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran
As the International Bahá’í Community stated on its website on August 8th, 2010, the seven leading members of the Iranian Bahá’í community have been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment each. An official confirmation thereof is still pending. Reports indicate that the seven are now incarcerated in Gohardasht prison in Karaj, a facility about 20 kilometers west of Tehran.
The Bahá’is have been detained in Evin Prison in Teheran since March resp. May 2008. The members of the coordinating group who were arrested on May 14th, 2008 are Mrs. Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr. Afif Naeimi, Mr. Saeid Rezaie, Mr. Behrouz Tavakkoli and Mr. Vahid Tizfahm. Mrs. Mahvash Sabet had already been arrested on March 5th, 2008. For years, the seven men and women facilitated a kind of informal administration of the 300,000 Iranian Bahá’ís –always with the government’s knowledge.
According to the Iranian news agency ISNA, the charges – under reference to deputy prosecutor Hasan Haddad – include espionage, propaganda activities against the Islamic order, and the establishment of an illegal administration, among other allegations. The trial in an Iranian revolutionary court ended on June 14th.
The Bahá’ís categorically denied the baseless and far-reaching charges. For months, they were not formally charged and they were not allowed any contact with their lawyers, human rights activist and peace Nobel prize laureate Shirin Ebadi among others. Their attorneys as well as human rights organisations complain that neither the trial against the seven leading members of the Bahá’ís nor their conviction complied with the international legal norms Iran has committed itself to.
The international community and human rights organisations fiercely criticise the verdict.
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