Tehran, January 10: Yesterday Iran told that members of the outlawed Bahai group arrested in connection with anti-government protests would soon face trial, as a spokeswoman for the group rejected charges they had weapons in their homes.
“The Bahais’ trial will be this week in a revolutionary court in Tehran,” Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying.
He repeated comments he made on Friday that “they were arrested because they played a role in organising the Ashura protests and for having sent abroad pictures of the unrest.”
He added that “they were not arrested because they are Bahais… Arms and ammunition were seized in some of their homes.”
But Diane Alai, the Bahai International Community’s UN representative in Geneva, said the charges against the 10 Bahais were entirely unfounded.
–Agencies