The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has posted a story about yesterday’s arrests of the leading members of the Iranian Bahá’í community.
While the detainees have all been regularly summoned, detained, and interrogated as individuals, this is the first time they have been seized as a group. The entire leadership body of the Baha’is in Iran is thus in detention.
“We are deeply concerned that the detention without charge of the entire Baha’i leadership is consistent with a pattern of violent and illegal persecution of Baha’is in Iran,” the Campaign stated. “The persecution of religious minorities will bring neither internal stability nor international security to Iran.”
The Campaign is very concerned for the safety of Mahvash Sabet:
The seventh member of the leadership body, Mahvash Sabet, has been in incommunicado detention since 5 March. According to information received by the Campaign, her family has only been allowed to see her for a moment when Intelligence Ministry agents brought her to a public place where a family member was able to recognize her. Other than this brief encounter, her family has had no contact with her, nor any telephone calls.
“There is cause to fear for the health and safety of Mahvash Sabet, whose incommunicado detention amounts to a form of torture, and of her colleagues as well,” the Campaign said.
Read the whole story here.
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Thanks for bringing so many good resources together, Barney.
One wonders if the world will simply stand-by this illegal and ominous act, or if it will rise and do something about the roots of this oppression.
I’ll use this banner on my blog!
Thanks for your comments, everyone. It’s a very bad situation.
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