DESCRIPTION:
Uploaded on Feb 10, 2011 By FlyFlyMona
www.youtube.com/user/FlyFlyMona
Translation: Weeks elapsed
and the dove at the cage laughs
Month are gone
and the dove at the cage laughs
Years even if years
this bondage remains
again and again
Years even if years
this bondage remains
again and again
this dove will
assuredly
at the cage laughs
There is an effusion into
the Prison
from the unseen Tabernacle,
There is an effusion into the Prison
from the unseen Tabernacle,
the dove intoxicates,
at the cage, it laughs
An endless world has
the dove
in the constant shining of love is the dove
immersed in dreams
is the dove
at the cage laughs the dove
Heaven is after each
breath of the prisoner
Heaven is after each
breath of the prisoner
it is the dove that is free
from want,
it is the dove that is free
from want,
at the cage it laughs
it is the dove that is free
from want,
at the cage it laughs
I weep that in that
banquet of loyalty
I have to way in
the candle in the
assemblage
of the friends
is the dove; at
the cage it laughs
is the dove; at
the cage it laughs
weeks elapsed
and the dove at the
cage laughs
Month are gone
and the dove at the
cage laughs

***
Mona Mahmudnizhad (September 10, 1965 - June 18, 1983) was an Iranian Bahá'í who, in 1983, together with nine other Bahá'í women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her membership in the Bahá'í Faith

منا محمودنژاد نوجوان با شهامت بهائی که در سنّ 17 سالگی در اول آبان سال 1361 در شیراز به همراه دهها بهائی دیگر از جمله پدر و بعد ها ، مادر خود، دستگیر شده و پس از 8 ماه تحمل حبس در بازداشتگاه مخوف سپاه و زندان عادل آباد ، با او با آنکه جوانترین فرد در میان زندانیان بهائی شیراز بود با شجاعتی بی نظیر از باورها و
آرمانهای خود تا پای جان دفاع کرد

One person's story
Ms. Mona Mahmudnizhad

ABOUT

AGE 17
NATIONALITY Iran
RELIGION Baha'i
CIVIL STATUS Single
EDUCATION primary School Diploma
OCCUPATION high school student
RANK/POSITION —
AFFILIATION educational establishment
AFFILIATION civil society, ethnic or religious minority

CASE

DATE OF EXECUTION June 18, 1983
LOCATION Adelabad Prison, Shiraz, Iran
MODE OF EXECUTION hanging
CHARGES: Religious offense

Background

"Baha'i is not a religion, it is a political party. It is a party that was initially supported by the British and is now supported by America. They [the Baha'is] are spies..."

Ayatollah Khomeini, Founder of the Islamic Republic*

"The Qur'an recognized only the People of the Book as religious communities. Others are pagans. Pagans must be eliminated."

Iranian Attorney General, Seyed Moussavi-Tabrizi.**

"The punishment for a Mortad-e Fetri [apostate who was born in a Muslim family] is death and his repentance is not accepted."

Head of the Islamic Republic Revolutionary Courts, Ayatollah Gilani.***

The authorities of the Islamic Republic have subjected the members of the Baha'i religious community of Iran (the largest minority, with approximately 300 thousand members in 1979****) to systematic harassment and persecution, depriving them of their most fundamental human rights. The Baha'i religion is not recognized under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic, and Iranian authorities refer to it as a heresy.

The Islamic Republic Penal Code grants no rights to Baha'is, and the courts have denied them the right to redress or to protection against assault, murder, and other forms of persecution and abuse. In so doing, the courts have treated Baha'is as unprotected citizens or "apostates," citing eminent religious authorities whose edicts are considered to be a source of law equal to acts of Parliament. The Founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, made execution a punishment for the crime of apostasy and decreed that a Muslim would not be punished for killing an apostate.


About this Case

Miss Mona Mahmudnizhad, a high school student and a member of the Education Committee in Shiraz, is one of the 206 Iranian Baha'is listed in a 1999 report published by the Baha'i International Community. The report, Iran's Secret Blueprint for the Destruction of a Religious Community, documents the persecutions of the members of the Faith in the Islamic Republic of Iran and lists the Baha'is killed since 1978. Miss Mahmudnizhad's father, also a Baha'i activist, was executed in March 1983.

Read The Article on
http://www.iranrights.org/english/mem...



Love Birds in a Cage
Oiseaux d'amour dans une cage
Los pájaros del amor en una jaula
Love oiseaux dans une cage
طيور الحب في قفص
爱情鸟在笼子里
אהבה ציפורים בכלוב
ケージの愛の鳥
새장에 잉꼬 부부
Любовь Птицы в клетке
Liebe Vögel in einem Käfig