Bah ' s are routinely jailed and their personal properties are confiscated. A secret government document published in 1993 by the UN Commission on Human Rights confirms that anti-Bah ' actions are part of the Iranian government's deliberate policy. Executions, Death Sentences and Imprisonments Since 1979 more than 200 Bah ' s have been killed and fifteen Bah ' leaders have disappeared and are presumed dead. As of today sixteen Bah ' s are in prison because of their religion. Four of the prisoners are on death row, two of them on charges of apostasy.
Arbitrary arrests occur regularly in many parts of the country.
In the last three years some 200 Bah ' s have been detained for periods ranging from forty-eight hours to six months in cities such as Yazd, Esfahan, Semnan, Babol, Kermanshah, Mashhad, Shiraz, Tankabon, Ahvaz, Kerman, Karaj, and Tehran. It has been apparent for some time that the authorities have adopted a strategy of focussing their efforts, successively, on Bah ' communities in different parts of the country, in order to determine forms of pressure that may succeed in intimidating their members and suffocating the religion's spiritual life. Currently, the province of Khorasan, of which Mashhad is the capital, has become the focal point of this campaign. Of the sixteen Bah ' s now in prison, ten are from Khorasan and, of those, seven are from Mashhad. Of particular concern currently is the situation of Mr. Ruhollah Rohani who has been in prison in Mashhad since September 1997 without permission for relatives to visit him.