She had only a small blanket to keep herself warm. Then, every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., the police interrogated Olya and 10 other women, threatening torture and death if they did not become Muslims. Day after day, they refused. The beatings and insults became more intense, but still no one cracked. Not one woman recanted her gentle faith.
Family flees Iran.
Finally, the guards told Olya to tell her husband to bring money and they would release her. But the family checking account had been confiscated along with their home. Finally, they told Olya's husband to bring the deed to the house and she would be released. Immediately after, the family fled to Pakistan where Bahai people put her in touch with people from the United Nations who gave the family safe passage to London, where she still lives with her husband and son. With the help of Bahais around the world, she is now in the United States to tell her story.