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Shock at "duplicity" as 20-year sentence for Iran's Baha'i leaders is reinstated

March 30, 2011

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A postcard produced by the Swedish Mission Council was distributed recently at the Goteborg Book Fair. "They have the wrong religion, therefore they were sentenced to prison for 20 years," it reads. "In Iran, adherents of the Baha'i Faith can neither, according to the law, attend university nor be employed in government service. Seven leaders of the Baha'i community in Iran were sentenced in June 2010 against their consent to 20 years imprisonment for among other things propaganda against the Islamic Republic."