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Baha’i leaders on trial in Iran

by Barney on 13 January 2010

Former Baha

Yesterday we found out that the seven pictured above, the former ad hoc coordinating group for the Baha’is in Iran, had gone on trial. They’d been held without formal charge in Evin Prison in Tehran since Spring 2008. Iranian government-sponsored media repeated the charges against the Baha’is:

espionage,
“propaganda activities against the Islamic order,”
the establishment of an [...]

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Cherie Blair writes about persecution of Baha’is in Iran

by Barney on 9 July 2009

Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair Pictures
Cherie Blair has published an excellent article in today’s Times about the persecution of the Baha’is and other religious minorities in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi defends the Baha’is
Cherie Blair praises the courage of Dr Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and, like Mrs Blair herself, a renowned human rights lawyer for taking on the defence [...]

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