The World - News from May 14, 1986
A 15-year-old Bahai boy was recently beaten and stoned to death in eastern Iran by a group of Shia Muslims encouraged by religious authorities, Robert Henderson, secretary of the National Bahai Assembly of the U.S., said in Wilmette, Ill. He identified the boy as Payman Sobhani. Iranian authorities recently hanged two other Bahais. Iran’s Shia leaders consider members of the Bahai religion, which originated in Iran in the 19th Century, to be heretics. Bahais say that nearly 200 of their members have been killed in the last seven years for refusing to convert to Islam.
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