Overshadowed by the show trials of protestors, embassy workers, a French citizen, and reformists in Tehran is the plight of the Bahais, arrested last year and facing capital charges. Their trial, however, is just as important in terms of basic religious freedom and confessional choice. I have received this notice from the “Bahais of the United States”:

On July 15, 2009, the Iranian judicial authorities issued to Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani, a lawyer for the Baha’i prisoners, a Writ of Notification that he is to attend court on August 18, 2009 in the matter of the trial of the seven Iranian Baha’i leaders, notwithstanding that he himself is imprisoned. Mr. Soltani was the lawyer for these Baha’is and was arrested on June 16, 2009 in the wake of the nationwide turmoil following the Iranian presidential election.

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