![]() ![]() ![]() Global leaders at the time led a wave of appeals for condemned Bahá’í women and men to be released from their death sentences. Human rights groups and ordinary citizens around the world were shocked and outraged at this barbaric act by the Iranian authorities. The women were hanged one by one, each forced to watch the next woman’s death in a harrowing attempt to coerce them into recanting their faith. Their only ‘crime’ was their refusal to renounce their beliefs in a faith that promotes the principles of gender equality-absent and even criminalized in Iran-along with unity, justice, and truthfulness. ![]() BIC GENEVA - Jwill mark 40 years since the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out a chilling act of oppression: 10 Bahá’í women were hanged in a single night in a public square in the city of Shiraz. ![]()
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