Sabet and her cell mate, Fariba Kamalabadi, another of the seven Baha’i leaders. Sabet, described the conditions they faced in early 2009 – and the response of Ms. In an interview, Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was herself imprisoned for three weeks in the same cell as Ms. Sabet has been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Since her arrest, and throughout her imprisonment, Ms. Sabet had been director of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education, prior to her arrest. Although she resides in Tehran, she had been summoned to Mashhad by the Ministry of Intelligence, ostensibly on the grounds that she was required to answer questions related to the burial of an individual in the Baha’i cemetery in that city.Ī teacher and school principal who was dismissed from public education for being a Baha’i, Ms. She was apprehended while visiting Mashhad on 5 March 2008. Sabet, 62, was the first of the seven leaders to be arrested that year. Today is the day the world will honor Mahvash Sabet, who has been wrongfully imprisoned soley for her religious beliefs since 2008, as part of the global “Seven Days in Remembrance of Seven Years in Prison for the Seven Baha’i Leaders” campaign.
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