Baha'is in Iran - Please Pray
May 14, 2008 - Six Baha'is Arrested in Iran
The dear Baha'i friends in Iran need our prayers. Please remember them as you pray each day. Our own dear National Spiritual Assembly of the U.S. asks us to help raise awareness of this atrocity in our blogs and our websites, local media and interfaith groups, and, if possible, to contact our congressional representatives with this news..
Please read the following story from the New York Times...CNN also featured the story.
The six men and women, all members of the national-level group that helped see to the minimum needs of Bahá'ís in Iran, were in their homes Wednesday morning when government intelligence agents entered and spent up to five hours searching each home, before taking them away.The seventh member of the national coordinating group was arrested in early March in Mashhad after being summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence office there on an ostensibly trivial matter."We protest in the strongest terms the arrests of our fellow Bahá'ís in Iran," said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations. "Their only crime is their practice of the Bahá'í Faith.""Especially disturbing is how this latest sweep recalls the wholesale arrest or abduction of the members of two national Iranian Bahá'í governing councils in the early 1980s -- which led to the disappearance or execution of 17 individuals," she said.
A picture of them can be viewed at this site.
Here's also a remarkable video of this ongoing persecution of Baha'is in Iran by the Iranian government. Please click here.
The dear Baha'i friends in Iran need our prayers. Please remember them as you pray each day. Our own dear National Spiritual Assembly of the U.S. asks us to help raise awareness of this atrocity in our blogs and our websites, local media and interfaith groups, and, if possible, to contact our congressional representatives with this news..
Please read the following story from the New York Times...CNN also featured the story.
The six men and women, all members of the national-level group that helped see to the minimum needs of Bahá'ís in Iran, were in their homes Wednesday morning when government intelligence agents entered and spent up to five hours searching each home, before taking them away.The seventh member of the national coordinating group was arrested in early March in Mashhad after being summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence office there on an ostensibly trivial matter."We protest in the strongest terms the arrests of our fellow Bahá'ís in Iran," said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations. "Their only crime is their practice of the Bahá'í Faith.""Especially disturbing is how this latest sweep recalls the wholesale arrest or abduction of the members of two national Iranian Bahá'í governing councils in the early 1980s -- which led to the disappearance or execution of 17 individuals," she said.
A picture of them can be viewed at this site.
Here's also a remarkable video of this ongoing persecution of Baha'is in Iran by the Iranian government. Please click here.
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