"An Unbelievable Injustice": Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi sentenced to a second decade in prison in Iran
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.
- 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.
- More than 320 Baha’is have been affected by individual acts of persecution since the arrest of Mahvash and Fariba.
- Mahvash Sabet rose to international prominence after a volume of poems she had written in prison was published in English under the title Prison Poems.
- Several other prominent Iranian women were jailed at the same time as Mahvash and Fariba during their first imprisonment.