Seven leaders of the Baha'i faith who have been held in prison for more than eight months in Iran without any access to their lawyer, finally officially accused of "espionage for Israel, insulting religious sanctities, and propaganda against the Islamic republic". They will face court hearings within a week.
Followers of the Baha’i faith, say the Baha’i founder is the prophet after Muslim's prophet, but Muslims believe that Muhammad was final prophet and there would not be any prophet after their prophet. So this belief regards Baha’is faith heresy and therefore they have been faced systematic persecution in Islamic Iran.
See how this systematic persecution how far goes that couple of days ago, Iran's Prosecutor General Dorri-Najafabadi said "there is irrefutable evidence that adherents of the Baha'i sect are in close contact with the enemies of the Iranian nation, Baha'i organizations are illegal and their connections to Israel and their enmity toward Islam and the Islamic system are absolutely certain and their threat against national security is a proven fact."
It just happened that Baha'i World Center is in Haifa, city of Israel and this goes back in history before founding of the Jewish state but Islamic Iran abuses this fact and provides false propaganda to Iranian people too easily charges Baha'is.
There is not any due fair legal process in Islamic Iran's Judiciary and specially in the religiously and politically motivated cases.
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