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Date 2008-03-05, sorted by firsts, ascending

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2008 5 Mar
200-		 Mahvash Sabet – a schoolteacher and mother of two and a member of the national-level administrative group for Iran, the Yaran – was arrested after having been summoned to Mashhad to discuss some matters regarding a Bahá'í burial. She subsequently spent 175 days in solitary confinement. On the 26th of May she was moved to Evin prison in Tehran. [BWNS Special Report]
  • This arrest marked a new wave of persecution of the Bahá'í Faith in Iran.
  • See Iran Press Watch 10561 for the background story to her arrest.
    		•  * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Arrests; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Evin Prison; Iran; Mahvash Sabet; Mashhad, Iran; Yaran
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