Afif Naimi
HRD
Afif Naimi is human rights defender, who was formerly part of the community leadership of the Baha’i community in Iran. He tended to the spiritual and social needs of the Iranian Baha’i community given the absence of formally elected Baha’i leadership. He was prosecuted because of his religious beliefs and for advocating for the rights of the Baha’i community in Iran, who have been persecuted for over 40 years. The human rights defender previously spent a decade in prison on multiple charges including "espionage, propaganda against the Islamic Republic" after he was arrested in 2008.
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