{"id":1205,"date":"2010-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/report-coincides-with-worsening-situation\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:52:49","slug":"report-coincides-with-worsening-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/report-coincides-with-worsening-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report coincides with worsening situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/rozita%20vasseghi%2016.jpg\" alt=\"Report coincides with worsening situation\" \/><figcaption>Held in solitary confinement for more than six months: Rozita Vasseghi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A national newspaper report on the fate of a sister of a Melbourne Baha\u2019i comes as fears mount that Iranian authorities are planning to jail more Baha\u2019is.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian newspaper reported today that extremely severe conditions in which Rozita Vasseghi has been jailed in Iran, including more than six months in solitary confinement, have damaged her health<\/p>\n<p>In a story on page 2 of the newspaper\u2019s 1 October 2010 edition, award-winning journalist Sally Neighbour writes that Rozita Vasseghi was jailed for five years on the charges of &#8220;teaching against the regime, taking action against national security and insulting religious sanctities&#8221;, which resulted from her allegedly distributing CDs about the Baha&#8217;i Faith.<\/p>\n<p>The report quotes her sister, Melbourne author and refugee Rosa Vasseghi, as saying that the charges followed Rozita\u2019s trip to Australia in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer only crime is being a Baha&#8217;i,\u201d Rosa says.<\/p>\n<p>The story says that the 70-year-old mother of the sisters was permitted to see Rozita recently but barely recognised her daughter because she had lost so much weight, was in pain and could barely walk.<\/p>\n<p>The International Federation of Human Rights is campaigning for Rozita\u2019s freedom, saying the conditions in which she has been held were \u201cso appalling\u201d that she was in an extremely weakened state.<\/p>\n<p>The report in The Australian comes as increasing evidence indicates that Iranian authorities have been stepping up the imprisonment of Baha\u2019is, Australian Baha\u2019i Community spokesperson Tessa Scrine said today.<\/p>\n<p>This is being done systematically but in a gradual way, seemingly to try to avoid drawing international attention to the widespread incarceration of Baha\u2019is in Iran, Ms Scrine said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have grave fears for more than 230 Baha\u2019is who have been arrested but not yet imprisoned,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome Baha\u2019is are being held in horrendous conditions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to Rozita Vasseghi, there is the case of three young Baha\u2019is, Haleh Rouhi, Sasan Taqva, and Raha Sabet, who have been held for more than three years in dreadful conditions despite an official report that completely exonerated them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe systematic official campaign to eliminate the Baha\u2019i Community has recently involved the jailing for 10 years of seven Baha\u2019i leaders, the arrests and imprisonment of scores of other members of the Faith, and widespread and severe harassment of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national newspaper report on the fate of a sister of a Melbourne Baha\u2019i comes as fears mount that Iranian authorities are planning to jail more Baha\u2019is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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