An international organization representing Baha’is expressed its concerns over the situation of as far as 100 prisoners of the community being held by Iranian security forces amid a coronavirus crisis, VOA reported.
In a VOA Persian interview on Monday, the Baha’i International Community’s chief representative to the U.N. in New York, Bani Dugal, said in a VOA Persian interview said an estimated 50 to 100 Iranian Baha’is remain in Iran’s crowded and unhygienic prison compounds.
According to Dugal, Iranian authorities released “about 20” members of the faith as part of the prison furlough policy in recent weeks.
“Because of the general prison conditions in Iran, we are extremely concerned about the remaining prisoners,” Dugal said. “We don't know whether any of them have contracted the virus, because those details are hard to ascertain. But I'm sure they are vulnerable.”
Right groups have been warning about Iranian prison’s extremely risky environment since the start of the deadly pandemic’s outbreak in Iran, which so far killed thousands of Iranians.
