Payam Akhavan, professor of international law at McGill University Faculty of Law, speaks before Congress the US Commission on International Religious Freedom on February 21, 2008, for a hearing on “Human Rights & Religious Freedom in Iran.” This comes in four segments. Professor Akhavan is himself an Iranian Baha’i, living in Canada.

Hat-tip to Jim for alerting me to the fact that Prof. Akhavan was speaking before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and not the US Congress.

You can watch the entire proceedings of this hearing (2 hours and 42 minutes) on the C-Span site. Type “Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Iran” into the search box. It seems that two of the other interviewees had interesting things to say about the Baha’is in Iran.

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