Rochan Yazdi
Dr. Rochan Yazdi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913 Egypt |
| Died | June 26, 2006 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
| Other names | Rawshan |
| NSA member | Egypt & Sudan ???? - 1956 North East Africa 1956 - 1960 |
Dr. Rochan Yazdi (1913 - June 26, 2006)[1] was a Persian-Egyptian Bahá’í who served as a National Spiritual Assembly member in Egypt.
Biography[edit]
Yazdi was a son of Hájí Muhammad Yazdi, a Persian Bahá’í who pioneered to Alexandria, Egypt, on the instructions of Bahá’u’lláh. Yazdi studied medicine in Lyons, France, in the 1930's,[2] then returned to Egypt and established a practice in Port Said where he was also an active member of the Bahá’í community. During the Second World War he volunteered in Egyptian concentration camps holding Italian prisoners of war and at the end of the war he was honored by the Italian government.[3]
As of 1948 Yazdi had been elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and Sudan,[4] and he also served on the body after it was reconstituted as the National Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa in 1956.[5] The Egyptian government gradually began to persecute the Bahá’ís of the country and Yazdi was arrested and briefly imprisoned twice experiencing torture. In 1968 his medical clinic was seized and his medical license was revoked so he moved to Canada.[3]
Yazdi had to recomplete medical school in order to practice in Canada and he completed his studies specializing in nuclear medicine. He then settled in Sherbrooke in Quebec where he worked at the Universite de Sherbrooke up until his passing in 2006.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ Rochan Yazdi obituary at SteveElkas.com
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1937). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. New York City, NY. Volume 6 (1934-1936), Pg(s) 501. View as PDF.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bahá’í Canada, Vol. 19(7), p 38
- ↑ Baha'i News (1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 211, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 329, Pg(s) 24. View as PDF.
