History

Iran - members of the National Spiritual Assembly who disappeared in August in 1980. All are presumed to have been killed

The seven Bahá’ís arrested in 2008 whose trial began on 12 January 2010 are, seated from left, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Saeid Rezaie, and, standing, Fariba Kamalabadi, Vahid Tizfahm, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, and Mahvash Sabet. All are from Tehran. The photograph was taken several months before their arrest

A campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to raise awareness about the Yaran, seven Bahá’í leaders imprisoned in Iran

A Bahá’í father and son (at left) in chains after being arrested with fellow Bahá’ís, in a photograph taken around 1896. Both were subsequently executed