"When the procession reached the public square, where the execution was to take place, Quddús, this youth of only twenty-seven years, cried out, "Would that my mother were with me, and could see with her own eyes the splendour of my nuptials!" As these words were being spoken the wild multitude fell upon him, tearing him limb from limb and throwing the scattered pieces into a fire which they had kindled for that purpose. Another account states that the Sa'ídu'l-'Ulamá had himself cut of Quddús' ears and struck him on the head with an axe." [TtP92]

In the morning the Báb was taken to the homes of the leading clerics to obtain the death-warrants. [Bab155; DB508]

Many Bábís were tortured and killed in the weeks following the attempt on the life of the Sháh. [BKG84]

Áqá Najaf-‘Alíy-i-Zanjání, a disciple of Hujjat, was executed in Tihrán. [BBR254; BW18:383]

"In the city of 'Ishqábád the newly established Shí'ah community, envious of the rising prestige of the followers of Bahá'u'lláh who were living in their midst, instigated two ruffians to assault the seventy-year old Hájí Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Isfáhání, whom, in broad day and in the midst of the bazaar, they stabbed in no less than thirty-two places, exposing his liver, lacerating his stomach and tearing open his breast. A military court dispatched by the Czar to 'Ishqábád established, after prolonged investigation, the guilt of the Shí'ahs, sentencing two to death and banishing six others - a sentence which neither Násir'd-Dín Sháh, nor the 'ulamás of Tihrán, of Mashad and of Tabríz, who were appealed to, could mitigate, but which the representatives of the aggrieved community, through their magnanimous intercession which greatly surprised the Russian authorities, succeeded in having commuted to a lighter punishment." [GPB202-203]

Seven Bahá'ís were executed on the order of the governor of Yazd, Husain Mírzá, Jalálu'd-Dín-Dawlih (the grandson of the shah and the son of Zillu's-Sultán) and at the instigation of the mujtahid, Shaykh Hasan-i-Sabzivárí. [BW18p384 ]

Hájí Muhammad was set upon and killed in Hisár, Khurásán. BW18:384]

See BW18p385 for a chronicle of events by Moojan Momen:

• 14 June: Yazd: Sayyid Muhammad-Ibrahim, the new Imam-Jum‘ih, preached against the Bahá’ís; rabble took to the streets; shop of Aqé Muhammad-Husayni-Attar and several other Bahá’ís looted.
• 15 June: Yazd: Hajl’ Mirzay-i-Halabf—Saz attacked with an axe and died later the same day.
• 22 June: Taft: Rabble attacked Bahá’ís’ houses killing six Bahá’ís.
• 24 June: Ardikan: Rabble attacked Bahá’í houses killing four Bahá’í’s.
• 26 June: Yazd: Nine Bahá’ís killed and many houses pillaged.
• Farashah: Haji’ Sayyid Javad-i-Muhammadabédi’ beaten to death.
• 27 June; Yazd: Rabble killed six Bahá’ís; Citadel besieged in the belief that Mulla ‘Abdu’l-Ghiani was there.
• Manshad: Rabble killed six Bahá’ís.
• Ardikan: Rabble set out for home of Sadru’s-Sultan but were turned back.
• 28 June; Yazd: On orders of the Governor, Jalalu’d—Dawlih, two Bahá’ís brought before him; one was blown from a cannon and another had his throat cut.
• Taft: Mulla Muhammad-Husayn killed.
• Manshad: Three Bahá’ís killed.
• Ardikén: Sadru’s-Sultan, his brothers, Nizamu’sh-Shiari‘ih and Mu‘tamadu’sh-Shari‘ih, his nephew, Diya’u’sh~Shari‘ih, and four others killed.
• Hanza: Fatimih Bigum killed.
• 29 June; Taft: Aqá Muhammad shot to death on decree of Shaykh Husayn-Daréz.gum; Aqa Muhammad-Háshim-Dalall killed as he fled Yazd.
• ‘Izzábéd: Hájí Ahmad-i-Muqani-Bashi’ killed.
• Hanzá: Mirzá Ahmad-i-Arzim beaten to death.
• 30 June; Taft: Hájí Muhammad-Isma'il killed.
• Manshád: Sayyid Husayn beaten to death.
• 1 July; Manshád: Three Bahá’ís killed.
• 2 July; Manshad: Mirzái Husayn stabbed to death.
• 3 July; Manshad: Aqá ‘Ali Muhammad shot to death.
• Banádak: Aqá Mirzá Muhammad-Huda and Aqá Muhammad-Husayn Of Yazd killed.
• 4 July; Manshád: Aqá Muhammad shot to death.
• ‘Abbásábád: Háji Muhammad-Husayn killed.
• 5 July; Manshád: Aqá ‘Alf-Akbar beaten then shot to death.
• ‘Abbásábéd: Hájí Ahmad-i-Kaffash beaten to death.
• 6 July; Manshad: Khadijih Sultzán Khanum thrown from top of a building and killed.
• Abbásábéd: Aqá ‘Ali-Akbar-i-Qassab beaten to death.
• 8 July; Manshad: Aqá Muhammad beaten and burned to death.
• 9 July: Manshad: Aqá Muhammad-‘Ali strangled to death.
• 10 July; Manshad: Shatir Husayn, Khabbz’i-i-Yazdi and Mirzá Muhammad-Ibráhim, Tabib-i-Khuramshéhi beaten to death.
• 11 July; Manshád Aqa Ghulám-Ridá shot and beaten to death.
• 12 July; Manshad: Three Bahá’ís killed,
• 13 July:Ibrihimabad;: Aqá Asadu'lláih killed and his head taken back 10 Manshad.
• Gavafshad: Ustéd Ridá shot to death.
• Banzadak: Aqa Ghulám-Ridá shot to death.
• Hanzá: Sayyid Muhammad-‘Ali and Mirzá Javád-i-Sabbagh shot to death.
• 14 July; Hadafl: AqéTAbdu‘r-Rasfil shot and his body burned.
• 15 July: Manshéd: Aqé Mullá Bahá’í’ burned alive then shot.
• 19 July; Qavámzábéd: Aqá ‘Ali-Ridáy-i-Sha‘r-báf killed.

When the persecutions throughout Iran were at their peak, in midsummer of 1903, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote a proclamatory treatise outlining events leading to these pogroms, the motives and actions of the principle persecutors, and the intense sufferings of the Bahá’í community.

In retrospect, it appears that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá intended this treatise to be published in the West, galvanizing the support of prominent individuals, Bahá’í communities of the United States and Europe in general, and, the public at large. Towards this end, he instructed one of his secretaries, Dr. Younis Khan Afroukhtih, to translate this treatise, which presumably was done in collaboration with some English-speaking Bahá’ís visiting ‘Akká at the time. This work was further assisted by an English-speaking pilgrim of Jewish-descent from Hamadan, Dr. Arastoo Hakim, and was completed on 19 September 1903.

*The translated treatise was then sent to the United States It was received in Chicago on 29 October 1903 and its publication took place through the work of Bahá’í Publishing Society in 1904. However, for reasons not clear, it was published as a document prepared by Hájí Mírzá Haydar-‘Alí, a prominent Bahá’í residing in Haifa at that time. In this reference can be found a 2007 translation by Ahang Rabbani [Bahá'í Studies Review Vol 14 2007 p53-67]