A Bahai family in Melbourne is living in fear for the life of a relative detained in Yemen after another Bahai man was sentenced to death by a court in the capital, Sanaa, this month.
The uncle of one of the members of the Melbourne family is among several Bahai men in detention in Yemen.
The Melbourne family, who are not Yemeni, do not wish to be identified because of the risk to their relatives in the war-torn country.
Hamed bin Haydara, 53, a prominent man in Yemen’s Bahai community, was sentenced to death in absentia by a judge of a special criminal court controlled by Houthi rebels, on January 2.
He has been in prison in Sanaa since 2013, charged with spying for Israel and converting Muslims to the Bahai faith.
Read the full article by Steve Jacobs at The Sydney Morning Herald.