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Samin Ehsani sentenced: 5 years

Samin Ehsani ( ثمین احسانی ), a Bahai activist for children’s rights,
has been sentenced to five years in prison. The trial was held on June
10, and the sentence was announced to her lawyer in recent days. She was
charged with propaganda against the regime, acts against national
security, and de facto membership of the Bahai community. She engaged in
teaching and assisting Afghan children who had been excluded from
education. She was detained on August 17, 2011, in relation to some
problems with her passport, and taken to Evin Prison in Tehran.
Following that, security agents searched her home and seized her
personal effects, computer, and items relating to the Bahai Faith. She
was held for one month, before being released on bail of 175 million
tumans (113,000 euros, $US142,000).

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What I can do, is keep my arm
from bringing others any harm.
How can I give the enviers ease?
They are themselves their own disease.
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