Iran's Ebadi says aide freed on bail
AFP
13-Mar-2009 (3 comments)

An aide of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi who was arrested in January for links with the banned Bahai faith has been freed on bail by the Iranian authorities, Ebadi told AFP on Friday."She (Jinous Sobhani) has been released on a 700-million-rials (70,000 dollars) bail on Wednesday paid by her family," Ebadi said.Ebadi, who won the Nobel peace prize in 2003, said she was unable to comment on the accusations against Sobhani as "I have not read the content of her case."In January, the Iranian judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said that Sobhani was accused of "propaganda against the system and acting against national security."After her arrest, the Fars news agency, which is close to Iranian conservatives, identified Sobhani as a member of the banned Bahai faith and said she was was arrested for links with a Bahai organisation.It said Sobhani, who was the secretary of Ebadi's Human Rights Defenders Centre which was closed in December 2008 during a police raid, was accused of "forming an organisation of Bahaism in Iran."

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Hichakas

by Mehran-001 (not verified) on Sat Mar 14, 2009 01:21 PM PDT

What is more important in your mind than this. Just because Bahais think differently they are harassed and humiliated by this disgusting regime for years. If you don't think that is a big deal, then I don't know what is.


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What happens to Baha'is is important for us all

by Ali Najafi (not verified) on Fri Mar 13, 2009 08:12 PM PDT

Thanks for posting this.

I am happy to see that so many Iranians -- Muslim, agnostics, atheists, Jewish, Kurdish, Christian, Azeri, and so many others -- care about what happens to the Baha'is. They, as should the rest of the Iranian community, understand that whatever our beliefs are, we demand our freedom.

There are many segments of Iranian society that are also oppressed -- women, free-thinkers, reformers, ethnic minorities, and many others. We all know that for the past 30 years the Baha'is have faced the brunt of the Iranian governments systematic oppression. No other group in Iran has been deprived of higher education, barred from employment in most industries, experienced mass desecration of cemeteries, had their marriages stated as illegal, and the list goes on.

The BIG DEAL that we all recognize is as the Iranian government steps up its oppression of Baha'is then the rest of society is in FURTHER danger. All of what is left of our freedom is at stake. The Iranian clergy will feel that they can just as easily FURTHER clamp down on women, free-thinkers, reformers, ethnic minorities and the many others.

As the story goes, once they complete their pogrom against Baha'is, which are the next groups that will be the frontline target of the governments wrath.

In the end, we are all one interconnected people. Not to sound like a broken record, whatever is left of the freedom of Iranians is at stake.

For those few that still may not be convinced of why they should care, I would like to turn your attention to the October 2008 letter written by the Baha'i international governing body, the Universal House of Justice, to the Baha'is of Iran. I have posted it before, but I find the letter filled with dignity, wisdom, and integrity. Please read it:

//www.bwns.org/sites/news.bahai.org/files/doc...


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HERE WE GO AGIAN!

by HICHKAS2000 (not verified) on Fri Mar 13, 2009 07:17 PM PDT

What is so big deal about this ... there're certainly more critical News about Iran than this. Oh maybe it is important because he was a Bohai.

But how about those so called "Moslems" who lose their freedom every day in Iran??


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