Iran will put on trial seven members of an unrecognized sect, who have allegedly conducted “espionage for Israel” and desecrated religious sanctities.
“The court hearing of seven detained Baha'i followers accused of espionage for Israel and insulting sanctities will be held in branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on Tuesday,” the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) quoted Hassan Haddad, in charge of security affairs of Tehran's prosecutor office, as saying on Saturday.
He added that the trial of the seven Baha'is will be held in the presence of their lawyers.
Six members of the Baha'i sect were detained in May, 2008. One other was arrested two months earlier.
Followers of the Baha'i sect -- founded in Iran in 1863 -- are not officially recognized by Iran.
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