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“Echoes of injustice”: Global event honors 10 Bahá’í women 40 years on
LONDON — On Wednesday evening, Central Hall Westminster in London resonated with artistic performances and moving presentations honoring the 10 Bahá’í women executed in Iran 40 years ago. This global commemorative event was part of the “Our Story Is One” endeavor—a year-long campaign that honors the memory of the 10 Bahá’í women and sheds light on the…
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Sandra Lynn Hutchison: Forty years later, I take strength from the courage of 10 women executed at Iran’s Adelabad prison
Source: Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2023 Opinion: On June 18 this year, I didn’t think of dark prison cells as I remembered the ten women executed at Adelabad prison in Iran on that date in 1983, but of free spirits and butterflies, of a vision of a just and tolerant Iran in which all people…
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#OurStoryIsOne, Memorial Event, 16 June 2023, Vancouver Playhouse
Forty years ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged 10 Baha’i women in a single night in a square in the city of Shiraz. Their crime was refusing to renounce their beliefs in a faith that promotes the principles of gender equality—absent and criminalized in Iran to the present day. To maximize the horror and…