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6 of 7 executed in Hamadan extensively tortured

          
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          U 1TED N TiONS JbNE 16, REUTE — SIX OF SEVEN MEMBERS OF
          iRAN'S BA I RELIGIOuS flJNUIRITV WHO WERE EXECUTED IN HRPIADRN
          LAST SUNN IY WERE EXTENSIVELY TORTURED BEFORE THEY WERE SHOT,
          BRH ' I PO ESflRN SAID TODAYS
          THE BODY OF THE SEVENTH SHOWED NO SIGNS OF TORTURE SliT HE
          HAD BEEN SHOT NINE T1flES, RCCORD;rJG TO GERALD KNIGHT, SFOKESflAN ‘
          FOR THE BRHA'I INTERNATIONAL C MPWNITY WHICH 15 ACCREDITED TO
          THE UIN. AS A NON—GOVERNMENTAL ORGRNJSATION,
          ‘ 1 HE SEVEN INCLUDED SIX MEMBERS OF THE BRHR'l ADMINISTRATIVE
          ‘ BODY IN HAJIWDAN WHO HAD BEEN HELD IN JAIL SINCE LAST AUGUST.
          ‘ MR KNiG iT SAID THAT ACCORDING TO JNFORMRTJO FROM SOURCES
          I SiDE IRAN [ HE TORTURE WAS APPARENTLY INFLICTED RECENTLY.
          “ COr TRRRV TO USUAL PRRCflCE , THE CONtEMNED MEN 4ERE NOT ‘ ‘‘
          ALLOWED ViS T FROM RELATIVES SHORTLY BEFORE EXECUTION AND HAD
          BORNE NO SIGNS OF TORTURE WHEN VISITED EARLIER.
          ‘ UNLIKE OTHER MiNORITY RELiGIO S THE SARA'! FAITH IS NOT
          ‘ ‘ RECOGNISED 1U DER T E hEW IRANIAN tONSTrTUTJON AND ITS FOLLOI JER
          ‘I ARE REGARDED AS HERETICS BY ISLAMIC. FUNDAMENTALISTS.
          4 ACCOPDi G TO FIR KNi6 iT , AT LEFI3T 42 BAHA'IS HAVE BEEN
          EXECUTED IN IRAi4 SINCE OCTOBER 19?9 ANOTHER 12 WERE
          ASSASSINATED AriD 14 OTHERS HAD DISAPPEARED, HE SAID.
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          ‘ C l VINE DETAILS OF •THE ALLEGED MR1TRERT E JT, HE SAID THE
          BD OF RUS WTLRp RRRNJ HO E ND SIG OF TOkT B HE
          HAD BEEN SHOT NI TD1ES
          iWt BR 1R HABj j HR A BROKEN SHOULDER; DR NASJR
          VAFR j HAD HAD HIS'.THJGHS CLI,T OPEN AS F R AS iENAI T
          s o T JJCE; D “Ei IZNR J 1 HAD R'B DkE BACK' AND HAD'BEEN .,
          SHflT ‘SEVEN TIhES; Ht1 RY H DIL HAD HAD ‘OEE FINGERS ‘OF ONE'
          HAND PRESSED AND His BACK HAD. BEEN BURNED;..
          BRCK BURNED AND HAD REEN SHOT FIVE TINES; AND , .,
          TRRAZULLRH KH Z SUFFERED A SNASHED CHEST AND LEFT HAND AND
          HAD BEEN E 0 SEVEN TJNES I
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