May
14, 2015
#7Bahais7years
Day 1 – Mahvash Sabet
 Today, the Baha’i Community is celebrating the life of Mahvash Sabet, a teacher and school
principal who was dismissed from public education for being a Baha’i.
For 15 years prior to her arrest, she had been director of the Baha’i
Institute for Higher Education, which provides alternative higher
education for Baha’i youth. She also served as secretary to the Friends
in Iran, before becoming a member of the group.
Mrs. Mahvash Sabet
Born Mahvash Shahriyari on 4 February 1953 in Ardestan, Mrs. Sabet
moved to Tehran when she was in the fifth grade. In university, she
studied psychology, obtaining a bachelor’s degree.
She began her professional career as a teacher and also worked as a
principal at several schools. In her professional role, she also
collaborated with the National Literacy Committee of Iran. After the
Islamic revolution, however, like thousands of other Iranian Baha’i
educators, she was fired from her job and blocked from working in
public education.
It was after this that she became director of the BIHE, where she also
has taught psychology and management.
She married Siyvash Sabet on 21 May 1973. They have a son and a
daughter.
While the other members of the Friends were arrested at their homes in
Tehran on 14 May 2008, Mrs. Sabet was arrested in Mashhad on 5 March
2008. Although she resides in Tehran, she had been summoned to Mashhad
by the Ministry of Intelligence, ostensibly on the grounds that she was
required to answer questions related to the burial of an individual in
the Baha’i cemetery in that city.
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