{"id":1232,"date":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/sister-of-australian-woman-shifted-into-notorious-jail-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:52:51","slug":"sister-of-australian-woman-shifted-into-notorious-jail-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/sister-of-australian-woman-shifted-into-notorious-jail-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of Australian woman shifted into notorious jail in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/yaran%20two%20women.JPG\" alt=\"Sister of Australian woman shifted into notorious jail in Iran\" \/><figcaption>Fariba Kamalabadi, left, and Mahvash Sabet have been transferred to Tehran&#8217;s notorious Evin Prison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A sister of a Melbourne woman has been moved from a prison outside Tehran into a notorious jail inside the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n<p>Fariba Kamalabadi, a sister of Roya Kamalabadi of Melbourne, is one of two female Baha\u2019i leaders jailed in Iran because of their religion, the Baha\u2019i Faith.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Kamalabadi and Mrs Mahvash Sabet were members of a national level ad hoc group that helped attend to the needs of Iran\u2019s persecuted Baha\u2019is, the biggest non-Muslim religious minority in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Along with five male colleagues the women were illegally incarcerated, tried in a closed court on charges widely recognised as trumped up, and sentenced to 20 years jail.<\/p>\n<p>The women were recently placed in reportedly appalling and potentially life-threatening conditions in Qarchak prison, 45 kilometres outside Tehran. This week they were removed and placed in Tehran\u2019s Evin prison, which also has a fearsome reputation for the perpetration of human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>On 15 May, Roya Kamalabadi warned in a public statement read out at a reception in the grounds of the Sydney Temple that her sister and Mrs Sabet were in danger of an \u201cundignified imminent death\u201d and she called upon the international community to speak out about this gross abuse of religious freedom and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Kamalabadi called for the release of all seven members of the leadership group, a statement echoed by media, governments, human rights NGOs and interfaith groups worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese seven selfless individuals are the most pure, the most innocent, and truly godly and saintly human beings who have devoted their entire life, on a purely voluntary basis, to the service of their fellow countrymen, homeland and government,\u201d Mrs Kamalabadi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn return for these unselfish and noble acts, they are withering in captivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sister of a Melbourne woman has been moved from a prison outside Tehran into a notorious jail inside the Iranian capital.<\/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-1232","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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