In recent months, international media reports note that discrimination has escalated against Iran's estimated 300,000 Baha'is, with the regime's authorities arresting more Baha'is, closing down dozens of Baha'i businesses, demolishing their houses and bulldozing their farmland. The persecution against Baha'is has been ongoing since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when the monarchy held by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was ousted and replaced by an Islamic regime.
( Supplied, ABC News.) Iran's 'state-driven and systematic discrimination' against Baha'is Negar Sabet wishes her mother, who has been in an Iranian prison since July, could meet her baby girl. "How will she kneel," Negar asks hopelessly. Negar says it has left her mother unable to properly bend her knee and in need of medication, which she has no access to. The disease, caused by infection, most commonly affects a person's lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. She also noted her mother got tuberculosis the last time she was sent to Evin.
Negar says her mother had COVID at the time she was arrested. She has not spoken to her mother since the arrest and is worried she is not strong enough to withstand the conditions in Evin Prison. She worries that Iran's authorities are denying her mother visits from her father or other family members in Iran, so they can "disconnect them from the world" and "fabricate" a case against her. "I don't even want to think about it, to be honest," she says, noting her mother has been denied fresh air and visitors since her arrest and that this routinely happens while prisoners are being interrogated. Negar, who says the charges are unfounded, is hoping for her 69-year-old mother's release but, as time passes, she gets more nervous about her fate. Afif Naemi, pictured with his wife Shohreh Khallokhi, has also been arrested by Iranian authorities.
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