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Baha’is in Iran – latest update

by Barney on 4 July 2008

The Bahá’í World News Service’s Iran Update has just been updated. I’m both angry and deeply concerned to learn that:
The seven members of the committee that sees to the minimum needs of the 300,000-member Baha’i community of Iran are still being held by the government. No formal charges have been filed against them, and none [...]

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Nobel Peace Prize winners speak up for Iranian Baha’i leaders

by Barney on 30 June 2008

I was thrilled to learn that six women Nobel Peace Prize winners (only 12 women have ever won the Nobel Prize) have put out a statement calling on the Iranian government to free the seven leading Bahá’ís who are currently in jail in Tehran.
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire (founders of the Peace People in [...]

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