| ←391 | Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986 Insidious Turn of Persecution of Iranian Bahá’ís |
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| 10 April 1984 |
[Page 620]To all National Spiritual Assemblies
392.1 PERSECUTION FRIENDS CRADLE FAITH PERSISTS, TAKING EVEN MORE INSIDIOUS TURN. IN MARCH AT LEAST THREE PRISONERS DIED UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, TWO IN TEHRAN AND ONE IN BÁFT, KIRMÁN, BODY OF MUḤSIN RAḌAVÍ, 55 YEARS OLD, SHOWED EVIDENCE OF HANGING. OTHER TWO, GHULÁM-ḤUSAYN ḤASANZÁDIH-SHÁKIRÍ, 80, AND NUṢRATU’LLÁH ḌÍYÁ’Í, 61, WERE BURIED WITHOUT FRIENDS RELATIVES BEING INFORMED.
392.2 ARRESTS CONTINUE WITH LEAST AMOUNT PUBLICITY. SINCE LAST REPORT 17 JANUARY ALTHOUGH SOME BAHÁ’Í PRISONERS RELEASED, 111 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, MOST OF WHOM WERE MEMBERS OF SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLIES BEFORE THEIR DISSOLUTION LAST YEAR. NUMBER BAHÁ’ÍS KNOWN TO BE IN PRISONS IN IRAN TOTALS 704.
392.3 ACCURATE INFORMATION IN HAND DESCRIBES TORTURES PERPETRATED AGAINST SOME VERY PROMINENT BAHÁ’ÍS. FOR EXAMPLE ONE BAHÁ’Í SEVERELY TORTURED UNDER EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES FORCED CONFESS TO FALSE CHARGES. OTHERS SIMILARLY TORTURED RESISTED PRESSURES EXERTED ON THEM TO MAKE FALSE PUBLIC CONFESSIONS FOR BENEFIT RADIO TELEVISION. . . .
- UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
