Judge Iman Afshari, presiding over the Revolutionary Court’s Branch 26 in Tehran, rebuked the two women for “not having learned their lesson” from their previous imprisonment.ĭr. This trial came almost four months after their arrest. The latest jail sentence was handed down after a one-hour trial on 21 November. And at least 90 Baha’is are currently in prison or subject to ankle-band monitoring. Government plans to tar the Baha’is through hate speech and propaganda were also exposed. Homes owned by Baha’is in the village of Roshankouh were demolished. Dozens were arrested at various points in Shiraz, across Mazandaran province, and elsewhere throughout the country. More than 320 Baha’is have been affected by individual acts of persecution since the arrest of Mahvash and Fariba. The two Iranian Baha’i women were arrested on 31 July – for the second time – at the start of a fresh crackdown against Iran’s Baha’is. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - In the midst of increasingly violent and repressive actions by the Iranian authorities against their own citizens, two Baha’i women, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, regarded as symbols of resilience in Iran after spending 10 years in prison, have been sentenced to a second 10-year imprisonment. The power of dictators to silence and imprison writers continues to ‘put all heaven in a rage’”. Her incarceration by the Iranian authorities was a sin against the light. I rejoice that she has been released from prison. Mahvash is at heart a lyrical poet who sings the beauty of the world. Michael Longley declared, “I am humbled to share the PEN Pinter Prize with Mahvash Sabet… a songbird trapped in a cage. It tells of the intense inner experience of a woman deprived of her freedom. In 2013, her first collection, Prison Poem, was translated and published in Britain. Thanks to some intermediaries, she managed to get her writings out of cell no. Sabet started to write in jail, where she lived in terrible conditions, subjected to violence and torture.
Mahvash Sabet was released last month after spending nearly a decade in Evin maximum security prison, northwest of Tehran, after being sentenced to twenty years for belonging to the Baha’i religion, as always considered by the Iranian regime an “enemy of Islam”. In keeping with tradition, the winner of the Pinter Prize 2017, the Irish poet and academic Michael Longley, chose the recipient of the prestigious accolade. Which is presented “to an international writer who defends freedom of expression, often risking their own safety.” The prize-giving ceremony of the PEN Pinter Prize, established in 2009 in memory of Harold Pinter, was held at the British Library in London. On 10 th October the Iranian teacher and poet received the International Writer of Courage Award 2017
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