Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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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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Human dignity is indivisible
By David Kilgour, Citizen SpecialNovember 6, 2009Be the first to post a comment
One dismaying estimate of the number of people who died violently because of their religion between 1900 and 2000 includes 70 million Muslims; 35 million Christians; 11 million Hindus; nine million Jews; four million Buddhists; two million Sikhs and one [...]
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Oct22
U.S. House of Representatives Passes 11th Resolution Condemning the Persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran
04:43 pm on Oct 22nd 2009 OEA
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 407-2, a resolution condemning the government of Iran for “state-sponsored persecution of its Bahá’í minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human [...]
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Speaking at the UN General Assembly during the past week, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad professed concern for justice, freedom and human rights. He claimed that Iran is “one big and unified family” with full legal rights for religious minorities.
How interesting that Mr Ahmadinejad should decide that it was time to try to sweet-talk world leaders with [...]
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IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount [...]
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[AMARTYA SEN is Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University and former Lamont University Professor at Harvard. This article is a revised version of the Commencement Address given at Bard College on May 24, 1997. It originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, Summer 98, Vol. 20 [...]
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Trial of seven imprisoned Bahá’í Leaders postponed
GENEVA – The trial of seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders has been postponed until 18 October, the Baha’i International Community learned today.
According to Diane Ala’i, the Bahá’í International Community representative to the United Nations in Geneva, following a request for [...]
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Iran Bahais face espionage trial
It is not clear how long the trial of the seven Bahais will last
Seven members of the Bahai faith in Iran are to go on trial on Tuesday on charges of spying for Israel and of “insulting sanctities”.
Six of the Bahais were arrested in May, 2008. The other one was arrested [...]
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http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International have just issued an Urgent Action Appeal on behalf of the seven members of the Iranian Baha’i community’s former coordinating group, known as the Yárán or the Friends.
MEMBERS OF BAHA’I FAITH FACE UNFAIR TRIAL Seven members of Iran’s Baha’i religious community may face the death penalty at a trial that could begin around [...]
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12 August 2009
GENEVA — In yet another example of the denial to Baha’is in Iran of their rights to justice, including due process, judicial officials have reportedly set next Tuesday as the trial date for seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders – despite the fact that the lead lawyers registered with the court to represent them are [...]
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