While the U.S. press celebrates getting Roxana Saberi, one of its own, out of Evin prison, most Iranians are not so lucky. Kit Bigelow, director of external affairs of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the U.S., writes to remind me of an important anniversary about which the White House and State Department should be aware:

Tomorrow, May 14, marks the one-year anniversary of the imprisonment of the 7-member national ad hoc committee of the Iranian Baha’is. During that time no formal court charges have been presented and they have never been given access to their lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, nor has she been given access to their files. In February, the Prosecutor’s office stated publicly that the seven had been charged with “espionage for Israel, insulting religious sanctities and propaganda against the Islamic Republic” and that they had “confessed” to their crimes. We have just learned through family members of these prisoners that a fourth charge has been leveled against them, that of “spreading corruption on earth,” (Mofsede-fel-Arz), a crime that carries with it, as you know, the threat of the death penalty…

She and her staff post frequent updates, here.

Let us hope that the Obama administration’s enthusiasm to get to the conference room with Iran does not lead it to brush inconvenient Iranian behavior under the rug.