Letter to the Clerk from Bahái'i
Community of the UK
Thank you for a useful meeting with Mr Gapes
on Tuesday. Mr Leith will be writing formally to the Chairman
to express our thanks.
At the conclusion of the meeting you asked me
to transmit to you a list of those Bahái'i known to
be currently imprisoned or detained in Iran on grounds of their
faith. Since then I have been in touch with our international
offices and they are sending me the most accurate and up-to-date
information they have. The situation in Iran is currently very
fluid. Many Bahái'i are detained for a short term,
then released. Sometimes they are re-arrested and imprisoned.
It has, therefore, been problematic to keep an accurate record
of the number of Bahái'i who are deprived of their
liberty at any one time.
There are headline 10 cases that we are particularly
concerned about:
The seven members of a de facto Bahái'i
leadership committee detained since 14 May (March in the case
of Mrs Sabet):
1. Mrs Fariba Kamalabadi.
2. Mr Jamallodin Khanjani.
The three younger Bahái'i imprisoned
in Shiraz since 19 November 2007:
When I have further information from our international
offices, I will relay it to you for the committee's attention.
19 December 2008
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