Mona Mahmudnizhad

Mona Mahmudnizhad
مونا محمود نژاد
Born(1965-09-10)September 10, 1965
Aden, Federation of South Arabia
DiedJune 18, 1983(1983-06-18) (aged 17)
Shiraz, Iran
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
NationalityIranian
Known forExecution for membership in the Baháʼí Faith

Mona Mahmudnizhad (Persian: مونا محمود نژاد, September 10, 1965 – June 18, 1983) was an Iranian Baháʼí who, in 1983, together with nine other Baháʼí women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, on the grounds of being a member of the Baháʼí Faith.[1][2][3] The official charges ranged from "misleading children and youth" to being a "Zionist", as the Baháʼí World Centre is located in Israel.[4]

The nonprofit Mona Foundation focusing on girls' education was named after her in 2001.

  1. ^ Affolter, Friedrich W. (2005). "The Specter of Ideological Genocide: The Baháʼís of Iran" (PDF). War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. 1 (1): 59–89. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2007.
  2. ^ "Iran reportedly executes 16 Baha'is in secret". The New York Times. Reuters. June 20, 1983.
  3. ^ Mullins, Sandy (2007). "Mona Mahmudnizhad". Bella Online. Retrieved September 25, 2007.
  4. ^ NOEL GRIMA (August 3, 2008) 'Mona's Dream' may be directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi, perhaps not in Malta Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Malta Independent