Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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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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Send a postcard to Iran’s government? Why would that be a good thing?
The Iranian government, like all tyrannical regimes, makes great efforts to silence all those it considers unacceptable – activists, dissidents, minorities.
It is all too easy to feel frustrated in the face of the extraordinary cruelty of the Islamic Republic towards its citizens, including [...]
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Stephen Twigg, Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, has published a useful article in Progressonline about the FPC’s latest report A Revolution Without Rights? Women, Kurds and Baha’is Searching for Equality in Iran, launched on Tuesday evening, as reported here.
While the world is focused on the Iranian nuclear programme, people in Iran are calling on [...]
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“The treatment of Baha’is is appalling and unacceptable,” said Baroness Haleh Afshar at the launch last night of the Foreign Policy Centre’s latest pamphlet, A Revolution Without Rights? Women, Kurds and Baha’is Searching for Equality in Iran.” It is – in every way – not only against accepted human rights regulations but the ancient traditions [...]
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I’m glad to report that the EU Presidency issued an unequivocal statement on Friday calling for the immediate release of Bahá’í and Christian Prisoners in Iran.
Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the situation of people belonging to religious minorities in Iran
The European Union is very concerned at the deterioration [...]
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has just published a useful analysis by Mehdi Khalaji of the treatment of the Bahá’ís in Iran.
The article traces the history of persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran, including the recent toughening of the Iranian government’s stance on the Bahá’í question under President Ahmadinejad, and shows very clearly [...]
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