1 16 Baha'i Men & Women Executed;
American Officials Ask Reagan's Help
women and adolescents company officer; han's treatment of the
whose only crime was a Mr. urosh Haqbin, Btha'is has drawn the
their refusal to recant 27, an electrical technician protests of the United
their faith and convert to : a Mr. Abdu'l.Husayn Nations Human Rights
Islam,” said Dr. Kazem- Azadi, 60, an employee of Commission, the European
zadeh in the telegram to the health ministry. Parliament, the parliament
the President. The ten women hanged of Canada, Great Britain,
The telegram continues: Saturday, June 18 were: Australia and West Ger.
“Some sixty Baha'is still a Mrs. Nosrat Yaldai, many, and the United
in jail in Shiraz are also 54, mother of Bahram, States Congress. Amnesty
threatened with death, hanged June 16; International, the non.poli.
The world must not per- a Mrs. Izzat Janami tical human rights organi.
mit the murders to condn- Tshraqi, 50, wife of maya. zation has protested'
•ue. We hope that the tullah, hanged June 16;
United States• will be in a Miss. Ruya Ishraqi, Iran s treatment of the
the forefront of enlighten- early 20's daughter of the Baha'is, saying that “they
ed nations in preventing above; a being persecuted sole-
further such barbarities,” . a Mrs. Tahirth Siyavushi .
During October. and .. . 32, wife . of Jamshid, ly, for . their religious be -j
November 1982 over 80 hanged June 16; . . liefs.”.
Bahi'Is were arrested in S Miss Muna Mahmud-
Shiraz. Authorities later' ñizhad, 18, whose father
announced that 22 of ‘: was executed March 12;
them were condemned to a Miss . Zarrin Muqimi, '
death and would be exe early 20's,
cuted if they would not * Miss Akhtar Sabet,
convert to Islam. . Three 9;
were executed March 12. . ‘ . Miss Simm Sabiri,
The six Baha'i men early 20's,
hanged June 16 were: — .. a Miss Mahshid Niru-
* Dr. . Babram Afnan, .. mand, 18. - ... ..
48, a physician; ‘.. Since the Islamic regime
Mr. Bahram. Yaldai, i came to power in Iran.
2 3-year old student;. ‘ four years ago, the : ‘ ‘ —
* Mr. Jamshid Siyavu- 300,000.member Baha'i
shi, 39, a businessm ; : ,. . community there has been
• r . ‘Inayatullah “ Ish- ‘‘subjected to an official
raqi, 60, a retired oil campaign of religious per-
• . - secutlon. More than 150
BIha'is . have, been execu•
.1 ,te4; hundreds have been
imprisoned; Baha'i holy
places.. and cemeteries
have. beéñ destroyed;•
7 thousands •of Baha'is are
homeless; and, thousands
are unemployed,' dismissed
• from their jobs because 1of'
their ...membership . in thó; :
.Baha'i Faith - —
W ILLMI I-rTE In the
wake of the hangings last-.
week of 16 more Baha'i
men and women by Iran-
ian authorities, American
Baha'i officials appealed to
President Reagan to do
what he can to prevent
further murders. The ap-
peal was part of a Sunday
telegram to the President
from Dr. Firuz Kazemia-
deh, secretary of the Na-.
tional Assembly of the
Baha'is of the United
States.
Iran executed the 16
men and women in spite
of an appeal for clemency
by. President.. Reagan one 1
mOnth . ago; : Hanged' on
:June.16 .j Shi .wi :
.six.inen, ranging: in. 1 :age.
from 23 to 60. . .. . .
ten •Baha'is hanged
on Saturday, June 18,
;‘Ie r e women, including
three teenage girls Ac
cording to Baha'i rej ,orts,
the ten were subjected to
a long interrogation afttr
which they were further
d to • thcir
religion and accept' Islam.
“American Baha'is vehe-.
inently protest the new
acts of inhumanity inflict..
ed iyon Innocent' . men,
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