06/18/2023
On 18 June 1983 — 40 years ago this month — 10 Baháʼí women were taken to a square in Shiraz, Iran, under the cloak of night. After months of torture and imprisonment, they were mass executed without the knowledge of their families. One was 17, most in their 20s. Their crime was their belief in a faith that promoted gender equality — absent and criminalized in Iran — justice and truthfulness. They were hanged one by one, each forced to watch the next woman’s death in a harrowing attempt to coerce them into renouncing their faith. None did.
is a global campaign marking the 40th anniversary of the ex*****on of these 10 Baha’i women in Shiraz, Iran:
Mona Mahmoudnejad, 17;
Roya Eshraghi, 23;
Simin Saberi, 24;
Shahin (Shirin) Dalvand, 25;
Akhtar Sabet, 25;
Mahshid Niroumand, 28;
Zarrin Moghimi-Abyaneh, 29;
Tahereh Arjomandi Siyavashi, 30;
Nosrat Ghufrani Yaldaie, 46;
Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi, 57 (executed along with her daughter Roya).
Send your creative contributions [email protected] 10 Women of Shiraz CampaignOn 18 June 1983 — 40 years ago this month — 10 Baháʼí women were taken to a square in Shiraz, Iran, under the cloak of night. After months of torture and imprisonment, they were mass executed without the knowl...
