Imprisoned Writers

The woman in the picture is a poet from Iran, serving her 7th year of a 20-year prison term.

Photo from Baha’i World News Service

She is, according to the Bahá’í World News Service: “A teacher and educator…charged with and ultimately sentenced on wholly fabricated charges of ‘espionage’ and ‘propaganda against the Islamic Republic’.

Her name is Mahvash Sabet.

Somehow, versesshe’d written while incarcerated made it out and have been adapted from the original Persian by Bahiyyih Nakhjavaniand publi...