Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi, 57
along with her daughter Roya, 23.
Her husband, Enayatullah Eshraghi was executed two days earlier

生い立ち
- 1926年、イスファハン県ナジャファバードに生まれる。
家族
- 高校を卒業後、1948年にエナヤトラー・エシュラギと結婚。 4人の子供をもうける。 夫の引退後、一家はシラーズに定住した。
- 一家の家屋は、1979年のイスラム革命で迫害され住処を失った他のバハイたちの避難所となった。(BahaiTeachings.org)
バハイの活動
- エザットとエナヤト夫妻は、革命当時、海外に住んでいた娘たちから、命が危ないから国外に出るようにと勧められた。しかし夫妻は、バハイ共同体が直面する圧力や迫害に対処するために、この国に留まることを希望した。(IranWire)
逮捕、裁判、処刑
- エシュラギ夫人の娘ルジータは、父エナヤトの処刑と同じ日に結婚する約束をしていた。ルジータは獄中のエザト・エシュラギと、同じく勾留されていた妹のロヤを訪ね、彼女らにその知らせを伝えた。(BahaiTeachings.org)。
- 1982年11月29日[IranWireは娘ナヒドへのインタビューに基づき、11月29日としている]、彼らの家は襲撃され、彼女とエナヤトラー、娘ロヤは逮捕された。 彼らはセパ拘置所に収監された。 1983年1月4日、彼女とロヤはアディラバード刑務所に移送された。しばらくして、エナヤトッラーもそこに移された。 1983年6月16日、エナヤトラは他の5人の信者とともに絞首刑に処された。その2日後の1983年6月18日、彼女とロヤは、シミン・フアベリ、ノスラト・グフラニ・ヤルダイ、タヘレ・アルジョマンディ・シヤブシ、モナ・マフムードネジャド、シャヒン(シリン)・ダルバンド、アクタル・サベット、ザリン・モヒミと一緒に絞首刑にされた。彼らの遺体は家族に戻されず、当局によってシラーズのバハイ墓地に埋葬されたと考えられている。彼らの処刑の2日前、1983年6月16日には、エナヤトラ・エシュラギも他の5人のバハイとともに絞首刑に処された。(Archives)
- エザット・エシュラギとその家族は、刑務所で肉体的、精神的な拷問を受けた。例えば、刑務所で時と場所を同じくしていた大切な人たちが、拘束中に信仰を撤回し、信仰を捨てたと、尋問官から告げられることもあった。それは、エシュラギ一家の囚人たちの士気を挫くための戦術だった。(IranWire)
- エシュラギ家の家屋は、生き残った娘の訴えにもかかわらず、エザトとその夫と娘の処刑の4ヵ月後に没収され、1992年に壊された。
Early life
- Born in 1926 in Najafabad, Isfahan province.
Family
- She completed high school and later married Enayatollah Eshraghi in 1948. She had four children. After her husband’s retirement, the family settled in Shiraz.
- The family home became a shelter for other Baha’is made homeless by the persecutions of the Baha’is during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (BahaiTeachings.org)
Baha’i activities
- Ezzat and her husband Enayat were encouraged by those of their daughters who were living abroad, at the time of the Revolution, to leave the country as their lives were in danger. But the couple was against leaving: they wanted to stay to help the Baha’i community cope with the pressures and persecutions it was facing. (IranWire)
Arrest, trial, execution
- Mrs Eshragi’s daughter Ruzita was engaged to be married on the same day as her father Enayat’s execution. Ruzita visited Ezzat Eshraghi in prison, as well as her sister Roya, who had also been detained, to tell them the news. (BahaiTeachings.org)
- On 29 November 1982 [IranWire gives the date 29 November, based on the daughter Nahid’s interview], their home was raided and she and Enayatollah and their daughter Roya were arrested. They were imprisoned at the Sepah Detention Centre. On 4 January 1983, she and Roya were transferred to Adilabad prison. Sometime later, Enayatollah was transferred there. On 16 June 1983, Enayatollah was executed by hanging, together with five other believers. Two days later, on 18 June 1983 she and Roya were executed by hanging, together with Simin Ṣaberi, Nosrat Ghufrani Yaldaie, Tahereh Arjomandi Siyavushi, Mona Mahmoudnejad, Shahin (Shirin) Dalvand, Akhtar Sabet, Zarrin Moghimi. Their bodies were not returned to their families and it is believed they were buried in the Baha’i cemetery of Shiraz by the authorities. Two days before their execution, on 16 June 1983, Enayatollah Eshraghi was also hanged, along with five other Baha’is. (Archives)
- Ezzat Eshraghi and her family were abused in prison with both physical and mental torture. One form of pressure they faced came when their interrogators would tell them that their loved ones, who were in the same prison at the same time, had recanted and denounced their faith during their detentions. The claims were untrue: it was a tactic used to try to break the morale of each jailed member of the Eshraghi family. (IranWire)
- The Eshraghi family home was confiscated four months after the execution of Ezzat and her husband and daughter, despite the appeals of the surviving daughter, and in 1992 it was razed to the ground.