After these series of interrogations which involved physical torture by the use of a cable being whipped of the sole of the women’s feet, Mahmudnizhad was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. A few days later, she was once again taken from the prison and interrogated in front of an Islamic Revolutionary Judge. After some time in Abelabad she was transferred to the Islamic Revolutionary Court where she was interrogated and then returned to prison. On November 29, 1982, she and five other Bahá’í women were transferred from Seppah prison to Adelabad prison, which was also in Shiraz. The two were blindfolded and taken to Seppah prison in Shiraz, where they were placed in separate quarters Mahmudnizhad was detained in Seppah prison for a total of 38 days. When they were finished they took Mona and her father into custody. At 7:30pm on October 23, 1982, four armed revolutionary guards, sent by the public prosecutor of Shiraz, entered the Mahmudnizhad household and ransacked the home in search of Bahá’í material. While Bahá’ís regularly faced persecution in Iran, the Islamic Revolution of 1979 refocused the persecution. During this time her father repaired small appliances for work and served the Bahá’í community as part of various Bahá’í administrative bodies. They spent two years in Isfahan, six months in Kirmanshah and three years in Tabriz before finally settling in Shiraz in 1974. In 1969 the government of Yemen expelled all foreigners and the Mahmudnizhad family returned to Iran. Mona spent her first four years in Yemen at age two, she was hit by a car and thrown to the sidewalk, but sustained no serious injury. She was the second child in the family the family’s first daughter, Taraneh, was seven years old at the time of Mahmudnizhad’s birth. Mahmudnizhad was born on Septemto Yad’u’llah and Farkhundeh Mahmudnizhad, who had left their home in Iran to teach their religion in Yemen. Mona Mahmudnizhad (Septem– 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. Video Series: The Story of Iranian Angel Mona Mahmudnizhad (Parsi)
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