The Baha’i International Community said the harsh prison sentences meted out against seven Iranian Baha’i leaders are an unjust punishment against innocent people and an entire religious community.
The five men and two women imprisoned were arrested in May 2008 and later charged with “spying for foreigners,” as well as “spreading corruption on Earth” and “cooperating with Israel.”
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, whose Defenders of Human Rights Center represented the Baha’i defendants, said she was “stunned” by the seven- to 20-year jail terms.
“I have read their case file page-by-page, and did not find anything proving the accusations, nor did I find any document that could prove the claims of the prosecutor,” Ebadi said in an interview with the BBC.
This is the norm. And people are surprised?
And why are they surprised? Unless we stop the radical now it will be the norm everywhere soon.
although if they created a mosque in the US, I’m sure a few would oppose it because they seemed like other Muslims.
The Baha’is have been cruelly oppressed since the Islamic government took over in Iran, even by the abysmal standards of the current regime. They were the subject of totally mass executions when Khomeini came to power, I’m almost surprised to find that there are any left to persecute in Iran.