Iranian prison authorities have told seven jailed Baha'i leaders that their twenty-year sentences which had been halved by an appeals court have now been reinstated. The two women and five men were members of a national-level ad hoc group that attended to the needs of Iran's Baha'i community with the full knowledge and tacit consent of the Iranian authorities until they were rounded up and jailed in 2008. Two of the leaders have siblings in Australia, and others have other relatives here. Australian Baha'i Community spokesperson Tessa Scrine said the reinstatement of the sentences has "stunned and appalled" Australian Baha'is.