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In 1697, a 20-year-old man was hanged in Edinburgh for blasphemy. Authorities “wanted his death to serve as a warning to other would-be dissidents.” In 1983 a 15-year-old Iranian girl,
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After fleeing Iran as a teenager, Nima Moradi, far left, is raising his own children in Australia.
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Nima Moradi says he is lucky and thankful to be raising his two children in Australia.
Growing up in Iran as a child of the Baha i faith, Mr Moradi was often beaten at school.
He was one of five Baha i children who would cower each morning as they were lined up for assemblies at his school in the Islamic Republic.
English By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo December 29, 2020 01:22 AM Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - Iran has sentenced eight of its Baha’i citizens to prison terms and other punishments according to an informed source, in the latest example of the Islamist-ruled nation’s longstanding and internationally criticized policy of severely restricting the rights of its Baha’i religious minority.
In a December 24 interview with VOA Persian from Iran, the source, who is familiar with the situation of the six men and two women, said their lawyers were informed a day earlier of the sentences handed down by a Revolutionary Court in the southern port of Bandar Abbas.