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Date 2000-02-17, descending — sort earliest first

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2000 17 Feb The passing of Mildred Mottahedeh in New York. She had been elected to the International Bahá'í Council, the first globally elected Bahá'í body and was the first Bahá'í International Community representative to the United Nations. She was born in Seabright, New Jersey, on 7 August 1908 and was 91. [One Country Jan-Mar 2000 Vol 11 Issue 4; TP705-706; BW99-00p307-308]
  • See Blogspot.
    		•  International Bahá'í Council; Bahá'í International Community; Mildred Mottahedeh; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Firsts, other; New York, USA; Seabright, NJ; New Jersey, USA; USA first representative of Bahá'í International Community to UN
    2000 17 Feb Iran's Supreme Court rejected death sentences imposed upon Sirus Zabihi-Moghadam, Hadayet Kashefi-Majafabadi and Manucher Khulsi.
  • They had been arrested in 1997 in Khorasan province accused of unspecified anti-security acts. (Chapter one, Article 498 of the Islamic Penal Code.)
  • A flood of protest followed from Western leaders. [HRW]
  • See message from the Universal House of Justice dated 29 September, 1998.
    		•  Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Khurásán, Iran; Iran

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