[1][6] At 7:30pm on October 23, 1982, four armed Revolutionary Guards, on the orders of the public prosecutor of Shiraz, entered the Mahmudnizhad household and ransacked it, in search of Baháʼí material.

[5] After these interrogations, which involved physical torture by being whipped on the soles of her feet with a cable, Mahmudnizhad was found guilty on manufactured charges and sentenced to death by hanging.

[3] President of the United States Ronald Reagan called for clemency; despite this, the sentence of the 10 women was carried out on the night of June 18, 1983, at a nearby polo field.

[2] The other women who were hanged with Mahmudnizhad were:[5] In September 2007, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center published a case study on the subject.

[8] The video was distributed throughout the music scene and was effective in bringing the persecution of Baháʼís in Iran to international public attention.