Upon receiving the award, he dedicated it to the Baha’i prisoners of Iran and said: “I hope this award could be used as a key in unlocking the doors of cultural and political prisons. With this hope in my mind, I dedicate this award to that eighty-year-old Baha’i man who has been sentenced to twenty years of prison and is passing the last years of his life in one cell with his grandson. I dedicate this award to that Baha’i mother from Semnan who is in prison accompanied by her infant child. I dedicate this award to all the 130 Baha’i prisoners who are in Iran’s political prisons only because they have adopted a different religion or because they have taught Baha’i youth at their homes while the government of Iran has deprived these youth from entering Iranian universities. ..."
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:29:56 +0000
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