Simply for Trying to Teach: Imprisoning Baha'i Teachers and Leaders in Iran

Huffington Post

Sarah Shourd was captured by Iranian forces while hiking near the border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009 and then held in solitary confinement for 14 months at Evin Prison, Tehran. "During the 410 days that I spent inside the closed walls of Evin Prison, I often wondered what the human beings alongside me were being punished for," she writes. "I now know exactly who the people next to me were, and that many of them are still there. They are…women like Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet, members of the Baha'i leadership who have now been held unjustly for a total of 10,000 days without legal representation or a trial. While in prison, I once had the extraordinary experience of meeting Fariba Kamalabadi..."

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