The Bahá’í in Samoa and American Samoa will hold a special service to commemorate victims of acts of violence based on religion and remember 10 women martyred in Iran.The Bahá’í Office of External Affairs & Media in Samoa, in a statement to this newspaper on Friday, said 10 women of the Bahá’í fa.
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One by one, the 10 women, mostly aged under 30, went defiantly to their deaths by hanging in a city square in Shiraz in southern Iran.Two days earlier, six Bahai men were executed in the same square, some of them relatives of the 10 women.
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