LONDON - 16 July 2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met this week with members of the U.K. Baha'i community and underlined his government's concern over the seven Baha'i leaders being detained in Iran.
Mr. Lembit Opik, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha'is group, accompanied three Baha'i representatives to the meeting, held yesterday at the prime minister's office in the Houses of Parliament.
One of the Baha'is, Mrs. Bahar Tahzib - originally from Iran but now living in England - shared with Mr. Brown her first-hand experience of religious persecution. Her father was executed in Iran in June 1980 for being a Baha'i, and her uncle, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, is one the seven Baha'i leaders arrested in the spring of 2008 and jailed since then in Evin prison in Tehran.
Charges against the seven have been reported in government-controlled mass media as "espionage for Israel, insulting religious sanctities, and propaganda against the Islamic republic" - accusations the Baha'i International Community categorically denies. No formal charges have been filed, however, and the seven Baha'is have had no access to attorneys.
Families of the prisoners had been informed that there would be a trial this past week, but now the families reportedly have been told there is a delay. No new trial date has been given.
Before their arrest, the prisoners were members of an informal committee looking after the affairs of Iran's 300,000-member Baha'i community, the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority. At least 30 Baha'is are currently being held in Iranian prisons because of their religion.
"I was very touched by the prime minister's genuine expressions of sympathy and concern," Mrs. Tahzib said after yesterday's meeting with Mr. Brown.
"My uncle is 75 years old, and he is being kept in unsuitable conditions for more than a year," Mrs. Tahzib said she told the prime minister. "This is clearly a cause of great concern for the family, and their wish is for a fair trial."
Mr. Opik noted that recent events in Iran have shown the world the methods - including manipulating the judiciary process - that the Iranian government uses to impose its will.
"The examples of the case of Roxana Saberi, the protesters picked up on the streets, in their homes and hospital beds, and the arrests of foreign and domestic journalists, among others, illustrate a pattern of arbitrary arrest, coercion, false confessions, baseless charges, and summary judgments," he said.
The other Baha'is who met with Prime Minister Brown were Dr. Kishan Manocha, secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United Kingdom, and Mr. Barney Leith, director of diplomatic relations for the U.K. Baha'i community.
Source: Baha'i World News Service
علاوه بر صد ها ایرانی که در جریان اختلافات انتخابات ریاست جمهوری دستگیر شده اند بسیاری دیگراز مدتها پیش از انتخابات د رماه ژوئن تحت عنوان «دستگیر شدگان امنیتی» در پشت میله های زندان بوده اند۰ چندی از آنان که «زندانیان وجدان» می باشند تنها بخاطر دفاع صلح آمیز از حق بیان، حق وابستگی یا اعتقاد مذهبی بدون رعایت اصول قانونی زندانی می باشند۰
ديان علايی،نماينده جامعه بهايی در دفتر ژنو سازمان ملل متحد در گفتگويی با راديو فردا می گويد که دادگاه هفت شهروند بهايی که قرار بود روز شنبه برگزار شود، به تعويق افتاده است٠
I rise tonight to support the seven Baha’is detained in Iran. In Australia, we live in the lucky country. We enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of belief. We have a healthy democracy and we have legislation that protects these rights.
It is an honour to speak on this motion tonight as the member for Cowan and represent the Wanneroo Baha’i community within my electorate. On 25 February this year I spoke in the House regarding this very issue, being the persecution of the practitioners of the Baha’i faith and other religious minorities by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On that occasion I spoke specifically about the Baha’is and the struggles they face in their homeland. In particular this matter is about the imprisonment of the seven main Baha’i leaders in Iran. Those leaders are Mrs Mahvash Sabet, Mrs Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr Afif Naemi, Mr Saeid Rezaie, Mr Behrouz Tavakkoli and Mr Vahid Tizfahm.
I rise today to speak in support of this motion and I do so because it is such an important motion and because seven Iranian Baha’i leaders have been jailed in Iran for a year.
This is an important motion which, above all else, deals with religious freedom and the prevention of persecution, particularly on religious grounds. From my own reading and also from representations made to me over time in my electorate, I have found people who practice the Baha’i faith to be people of peace and good will. I find it ridiculous to suggest that, in a place like Iran, they would want to be spies. 
I rise today to support the motion urging Iran to respect the human rights of its Baha’i community. I acknowledge the members of the Baha’i community in the gallery today who are part of the Australian Baha’i community, which has flourished here since 1920. The world watches with increasing apprehension at the deterioration of religious freedom in Iran. The religious fanaticism of the Iranian regime has led to the execution of untold numbers of journalists, writers, trade unionists, gays and lesbians and other minority groups. Not least among these are the Baha’i, whose progressive traditions, such as the equality of women, do not sit well with authoritarian theocracy.
As you will be aware, Madam Deputy Speaker Vale, I was not scheduled to speak in this debate but I heard a few moments ago that there was a vacancy, so I am very pleased to be able to take this opportunity to support the motion put forward by my colleague the member for Leichhardt in respect of the circumstances that the Baha’i community find themselves in in Iran at the moment. I must apologise to Erica Cole, the secretary of the local spiritual assembly at home in Longman, as I had indicated to her that I was not going to have an opportunity to speak, so perhaps she will not be glued to the radio or the television to hear the contribution I am about to make. I welcome the members of the Baha’i community who are here today to listen to us support them in what are very troubling times for them. As my colleague has just said, a number of the people in prison, particularly the seven Baha’i that we are concerned about, have relations in Australia. It is important that we as Australians support our fellow Australians of the Baha’i faith.
مصاحبه با دکتر فریدون وهمن
من هاله روحی ، یک زندانی هستم بنده با نیّتی خالص ، برای کمک به تعداد محدودی ، به مدت یک سال به منطقۀ سهل آبادِ شیراز می رفتم که شاید بتوانم دلی را شاد و خاطری را آرام و ناتوانی را دستگیر باشم.در یکی از روزهایی که از آن محلّه به منزل بر می گشتم بنده را دستگیر کردند٠ 
به گزارش مجموعۀ فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران، خانم سرور سروریان ظهر روز شنبه بیست و دوم فروردین ماه در منزل خود در شهر همدان بازداشت و راهی زندان شده است٠ بنا بر این گزارش، خانم سرور سروریان دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد در رشتۀ مد یریت بازرگانی است. در حال حاضر خبری ازوضعیت ایشان در دست نیست٠ این بازداشت در پس از بازرسی منزل خانم سرور سروریان و ضبط شماری از وسایل موجود در منزل ایشان از جمله کتب بهائی صورت گرفته است٠
On Naw-Ruz in 1909, 'Abdu'l-Baha, then the head of the Baha'i Faith, laid to rest the mortal remains of the Bab. 'Abdu'l-Baha personally placed the precious trust in its place in a building he had had constructed on Mount Carmel in Haifa.
The original structure was later surrounded by a formal colonnade and crowned with a golden dome to make it a fitting burial site for the Bab.
بنا به گزارش خبرگزاری فارس، حجتالاسلام والمسلمين سيدمحمد شاهچراغي نماينده وليفقيه در استان و امام جمعه سمنان در خطبههاي نماز جمعه شهرستان سمنان اظهار داشت که بر هر مسلماني واجب است تا هيچ گونه معاملهاي با پيروان اين فرقه نداشته باشند و از وصلت با اين افراد به صورت غيرقانوني و غيررسمي بپرهيزند٠
