Tag: West Berkshire Bahá’i Community

Radio addresses human rights in Iran

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Ferdous Khorassani - interviewed on Newbury Sound about freedom in Iran

West Berkshire Bahá’i Ferdous Khorassani has helped spread the message of human rights issues in Iran by doing an interview on her local radio station Newbury Sound – which reaches listeners across the whole of West Berkshire.

An interview and report on the second session of the trial of seven Bahá’is in Tehran went out on Newbury Sound on several news reports throughout the breakfast show on 8 February.

She said: “I hope this kind of publicity will help our dear people of Iran for their freedom. I can’t believe in this day and age that people can’t live freely and respect each other. All religions should be able to live in unity, all together. We don’t have to believe the same thing – we should respect each other and be tolerant.

“I came to the UK in 1979 at the time of the Islamic revolution. I have not been back to Iran and have resigned myself to the fact that I may never see the family and friends still in Iran again.”

http://www.newburysound.co.uk/bahai-community-speaks-out-i-4708.php

Personal message from the heart

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West Berkshire Bahá’i Ferdous Khorassani has a personal message from the heart for the seven Bahá’is awaiting the second session of their trial in Tehran. Ferdous celebrates her birthday on 7 February, the same day the trial is due to resume.

She said: “I’m lucky that I will be celebrating my 70th birthday in freedom. I will be thinking of these seven, their conditions in jail and the fact that they are separated from their family and friends and I pray that the seven will soon be released. The fact that I am free makes my thoughts of these seven all the more poignant.

“Like other Bahá’is, I consider that the freedom of religion and belief – of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Bahá’is and all other religious expressions – is a fundamental right for democracy, both in the east and west.”