Here is the short version of a long story in following order:
April 5, 2008: Extremist threatens the Iranian human rights lawyer and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Mrs. Shirin Ebadi. They threatened that she would be killed if she continued with human rights work and warned her specially against making speeches abroad.
May 14, 2008: Six Baha’i leader were arrested in Iran. This six men and women, all members of the Baha’i national coordinating group in Iran were taken to notorious Evin prison by government intelligence agents, early morning right from their homes. The seventh member of the national coordinating group was arrested in early March in Mashhad city.
Later, Mrs. Shirin Ebadi and her colleagues offered to defend seven Baha’is.
August 4, 2008: Shirin Ebadi slammed a government bill that ease polygamy laws for Muslim men, irony, Parliament members call it "Family Protection Bill"!
August 6, 2008: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) [government official news agency] claimed that Shirin Ebadi's daughter has converted to Bahai faith and attacked Ebadi's true intention on defending seven Bahai leaders. Not only conversion from Islam is regarded as apostasy, an offence punishable by death but also Bahai faith outlawed and banned in Iran.
August 7, 2008: Shirin Ebadi denied the article that her daughter had converted from to Bahai faith. She said "These allegations prompted by my legal defense work from seven Bahais. I am proud to say that my family and I are Shiites. In court I will defend the Bahais. Two colleagues of mine and I have accepted their case, although they were not able to see their families."
August 12, 2008: Shirin Ebadi's daughter denied the article and discredited all claims by government news agency.
August 18, 2008: Shirin Ebadi lodged a complaint against Iran's official news agency over the article.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize winner is under attack by Muslim fundamentalists
Labels: Bahai, Evin, fundamentalist, Human Rights, Muslim, Nobel Peace Prize
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