On the sixth anniversary of the arrest of directors of Iran’s Bahaie community on Monday, family members of these prisoners of conscience held a gathering along with a number of political and civil activists, along with former cell mates.
Dr. Mohammad Malaki spoke as the last speaker in this gathering and referred to his memoirs before and after the 1979 revolution, and the suffering that Iran’s Bahaie community has undergone.
“I know quite well that the Bahaie’s are deprived of college education in Iran and when I was the Tehran University dean my first condition in the university was that no student is any different for me and everyone must be able to study. I was upset of my friends because various people think that cruelty, pressure and massacres began in 2009, but it’s not like this. Therefore, I am asking them to read Iran’s 36 year history full of blood and violence. When the incidents of 2009 erupted, in those protests there was no difference between the Bahaies and Muslims and everyone went into the scene. Therefore, as much respect I have for the suffering the Bahaies have suffered, I want to say that all groups in the country must be respected,” he said.