{"id":1322,"date":"2015-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/heart-shaped-installation-reaches-out-to-jailed-leaders\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:49:55","slug":"heart-shaped-installation-reaches-out-to-jailed-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/heart-shaped-installation-reaches-out-to-jailed-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart-shaped installation reaches out to jailed leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/FBL.jpeg\" alt=\"Heart-shaped installation reaches out to jailed leaders\" \/><figcaption>Sign of support: installation at Sydney Baha&#8217;i Temple.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A heart-shaped installation at the Baha\u2019i Temple in Sydney is part of a nationwide and global campaign to express loving support to seven wrongly imprisoned Baha\u2019i leaders in Iran, and to call for their r<\/strong><strong>elease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inspiration for the giant heart comprised of 1000 individual images of the seven came from a line in a poem by one of them, school principal Mahvash Sabet, 62, who wrote:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIf I\u2019m in this prison now, it\u2019s only because<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I\u2019ve committed the crime of love again.\u201d*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Installation director, Sydney artist Mehrzad Mumtahan, is the nephew of one of the leaders, Saied Rezaie, an agricultural engineer, who with his colleagues is now seven years into a 20 year sentence. May 14 marks the seventh anniversary of their imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>From 14-21 May, in cities and towns throughout Australia, Baha\u2019i communities will host hundreds of devotional gatherings attended by civic leaders and friends from other faith communities.<\/p>\n<p>Each day will be dedicated to a different leader with the publication through social media of their personal story, seen through the eyes of an Australian family member.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders are: Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Mahvash Sabet, Behrouz Tavakkoli, and Vahid Tizfahm.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe theme is \u201cSeven days in remembrance of seven years in prison for the seven Baha\u2019i leaders.\u201d The hashtag is #7Bahais7years<\/p>\n<p>A special public service will take place in the Temple on Sunday 17 May at 11.00 am. Afterwards in the visitors centre, there will be a display of handicrafts produced by the seven leaders in their cells despite the severe restrictions placed upon them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct connection with Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia has a direct connection with the seven through close relatives who are now citizens, and because Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and her predecessor Bob Carr have called for their release. A House of Representatives bipartisan motion recently called for an end to the persecution of Iranian Baha\u2019is.<\/p>\n<p>The seven were members of a group which, with the long-time tacit consent of the Iranian authorities, looked after the needs, such as weddings and funerals, of the 300,000 members of the Baha\u2019i community, the biggest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Government agents rounded up the leaders in dawn raids on their homes, an unnecessary tactic of intimidation imposed on a group that is entirely non-political and pledged to obedience to the law.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of waiting, a sham trial in 2010 ended in the imposition of 20-year sentences, decried by the international community as unjust. The United Nations General Assembly annually condemns the persecution via resolutions co-sponsored by Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Baha\u2019i Community spokesperson Natalie Mobini said the Temple was the ideal site for the installation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heart represents love &#8212; our love and support for the seven leaders &#8212; and their love for the community they served,\u201d Dr Mobini said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Temple represents the intertwined concepts of worship and community service, and the Baha&#8217;i leaders encapsulate these values in their own lives,\u201d Dr Mobini said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heart-shaped installation at the Baha\u2019i Temple in Sydney is part of a nationwide and global campaign to express loving support to seven wrongly imprisoned Baha\u2019i leaders in Iran, and to call for their release.<\/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-1322","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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