We are with you Yaran یاران

This song is dedicated to the seven former leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran. Known collectively as the Yaran, they were sentenced to twenty years imprisonment simply for being Baha’is. They have been incarcerated since 2008 and still have 13 years of their sentence to serve.
For more information about who the Baha’is are, please visit the website of the worldwide Baha’i community at www.bahai.org

"Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran"

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: My Life and Captivity in Iran (HarperCollins) by Roxana Saberi is the harrowing chronicle of an Iranian-American journalist's arrest, sham trial, and sentencing to eight years in prison, as well as stories about the struggles and courage of the Iranians she met along the way.

Roxana Saberi - opening speech at the Hope Concert for the People of Iran in Berlin.

Roxana Saberi - opening speech at the Hope Concert for the People of Iran in Berlin.
This event took place at the Velodrom in Berlin, Germany, before thousands of people supporting Iranians who are peacefully pursuing human rights. This speech follows a piano performance by Saberi :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxkENCStf0

ANGELS OF IRAN | A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS: ROXANA SABERI

The story of Roxana Saberi's time in prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, two of The Yaran ("the Friends"), sentenced to 20 years in prison simply for helping administer the needs of the Baha'i community in Iran. Featuring journalist Roxana Saberi and Elise Auerbach, Iran Specialist for Amnesty International USA. Roxana, "I think the lessons that Mahvash and Fariba taught me in prison are universal. And they can apply to anybody, anywhere in the world. You don't have to be in prison. We have our own prisons, are own adversities, and we can try to turn those adversities into opportunities."

Remembering Mahvash Sabet

Mahvash Sabet is a member of the Iranian Baha'i Community, imprisoned for her adherence to and participation in the Baha'i Faith. As a member of what has become known as the Yaran, 7 members of a Baha'i community body, she and many other Baha'is have spent years in Tehran's Evin Prison because she refuses to recant her faith. In this video Bernadette Hall, a New Zealand poet and non-Baha'i, expresses her thoughts and feelings towards Mahvash and the poem she wrote while in prison.

Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra calls for the release of imprisoned Bahá'í leaders in Iran

On Tuesday 27th of May 2014, UK faith community leaders came together in an unprecedented gathering at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the incarceration of the seven former Bahá'í leaders in Iran known as the Yárán. In a powerful statement of support delivered via video message, which was screened to guests gathered at the Jerusalem Chamber, Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra added his voice to those calling for the release of the Yárán

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FREE THE YARAN! ANGELS OF IRAN

FREE THE YARAN! The Imprisonment of Fariba Kamalabadi
Iraj Kamalabadi speaks about the travails of his sister, a prisoner of conscience now serving a ten year sentence. Mrs. Kamalabadi, a developmental psychologist and mother of three was arrested on trumped-up charges on 14 May 2008. She is living under the most dire of conditions in Gordarasht Prison, west of Tehran. Incarcerated with her are the six other members of the Yaran (meaning "friends") an ad hoc group of leaders who oversaw the affairs of the Iranian Baha'i community. A massive international outcry for these and other innocents continues to this day.