Baha’i Women Political Prisoners Transferred to Iranian Death Concentration Camp to Die

His sister is in Gharchak concentration camp and is in Iran and he wants to save her.

This is a painful letter no brother wishes to write. What would and could any of us say or do in his situation? He is in China, seemingly free but he is getting ready to fly to Iran to do whatever he can to rescue his sister Fariba Kamal-abadi and Mahvash Sabet from the Islamic Republic Regime’s death camp. Everyone who has a sister, a brother, a child, a loved one facing death following a sham trial can empathize with this brother and his moral turmoil. We all can put ourselves in his shoes.

Fariba kamal-Abadi and Mahvash Sabet; the two Baha’i women who served as administrators of the Baha’i community in Iran were arrested and imprisoned about three years ago and following a sham trail were sentenced to 20 years of prison!!

From the onset, the intention of the captors was their death, preferably in the form of an accident in the prison. For whatever reason, the two women have survived one abuse after another, and multiple transfers one after the other to make sure, as the authorities themselves had claimed, they suffer what they deserve; the worse of the worse punishments. To make sure of the outcome, the authorities threw Fariba and Mahvash in the midst of dangerous prisoners who on top of criminal records of the worse kind, have problems with drug dependency and addiction, have frequent violent outbreaks, psychotic episodes and sociopolitical tendencies.

This last transfer is to a God forsaken hot and humid pit away from civilization. The place is called Gharchak prison and was formerly a commercial warehouse for poultry in the outskirts of Tehran. The horrifying condition of this place has made death to appear as the only relief. we know this since Fariba, previously calm and collected and in fact, radiant and patient, have asked for her life to be taken so she does not have to endure the inhumane conditions she and other 450 women prisoners have been subjected to.

From the reports prisoners have given out of this hot, feces infested and foul smelling violent death camp, the 450 prisoners have only four bathroom facilities making it into a collective infested foul pit. Only 150 beds for the 450 women, and a having to deal with chronic hunger getting one cooked potato or an egg for the whole day, adds to the dehumanizing stresses of their condition, making non stop fights, sexual assaults and killings amongst the prisoners and subsequent attacks of the guards an ongoing source of  danger, fear and trauma.

A letter written by the families of women prisoners to the authorities posted on the following face book.

Farzam Kamal-abdi left China for a heroic rescue mission. Everyone told him this is a mission impossible considering the deliberate plans of the Iranian Regime for the Baha’is of Iran considered to be enemies of God and Islam. Farzam knows this is not an action grounded in wisdom but one deeply rooted in love of a brother for his angelic sister.

Before leaving, Farzam called in his wife and his children to let them know of his decision and the dangers before him and that he might not return home from this trip alive. Lixin, his beloved Chinese Baha’i wife and all four children understood and supported their dads courage and love with harts filled with love, admiration and prayers for his success. They have known their dad who had witnessed the imprisonment, torture and subsequent death of his noble father Dr. Rouhollah Kamal-Abadi on account of being a Baha’i in Iran and knew also that Farzam would not be able to call himself a human without living up to what is expected of the name “human”.