Aadel Collection
6 of 7 executed in Hamadan extensively tortured
“ j - - 154 2CZC YA 690 t NNNN T 4 , ‘OE 65,. t , ‘ 2CZC V i , ‘ V L ? , ‘ 1545 TRJOE - RI I 5 (FiTT EPITOR : ‘ 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. .,.-.- . . - . , . -.. ,. - -. ‘.... - . . . . - - . .‘ . . , . . . ‘.1 flDRE AG , ‘
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