Ahmad Ridvání
Ahmad Ridvání (April 23, 1926 - September 11, 1981) was a Persian Bahá’í who was martyred in Iran.
Biography[edit]
Ridvání was born in Daran, Isfahan Province, in 1926. He married in 1952 an pioneered to the village of Gholeh-Malak where he experienced persecution due to his religion. The Iranian Revolution, which began in 1979, resulted in intensified persecution and in 1981 Ridvání and his family, including his niece and her husband ‘Atá’u’lláh Rawhání, moved to the city of Isfahan due to severe persecution in Gholeh-Malak.[1]
After forty days the council of Gholeh-Malak wrote a letter inviting Ridvání and Rawhání to return to the village promising they would be safeguarded and though they were skeptical they returned. Upon arriving they were arrested on August 17, 1981, and taken to Daran where they were imprisoned and executed on September 11. Their families were not informed of their execution or burial.[2]
