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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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The Last Word: Unspeakable Cruelty
Author:Jeremy Jones28/07/2009
Jeremy Jones
When speaking with a leader of the Baha’i community in Australia recently, our conversation inevitably turned to events in Iran.
In May 2008, seven leaders of this community were seized from their families, imprisoned and faced allegations of grave seriousness.
For 15 months, there have been regular indications that trials [...]
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Above: Baha’i victims of arson © Bahai World Centre
A hard-hitting article by Oxford University human rights lecturer Dr Nazila Ghanea about the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran has been published on the Daily Telegraph website.
According to Dr Ghanea, freedom of expression is being severely curtailed in Iran.
What connects an academic, a blogger, a Nobel [...]
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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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A 24 October 2008 press release from the Bahá’í International Community’s UN Office in New York reveals that an Iranian “inspector and legal advisor” who was asked to re-examine the 2006 arrests of a group of young Bahá’ís in Shiraz, Iran, filed a confidential report dated June 2008 confirming what Bahá’ís have said all along: [...]
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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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I was cheered to read this forthright article in FrontPageMagazine.com today. Faith McDonnell, the director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion & Democracy in Washington DC, points out the breathtaking contradiction (not to say hypocrisy) underlying the support that a group of churches is giving to President Ahmadinejad of Iran by holding [...]
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Three Bahá’ís in Yemen are under imminent threat of deportation to Iran, according to this story from the Bahá’í World News Service and this AP story on the Jerusalem Post website. If they are sent to Iran they may well face imprisonment or torture.
According to the Bahá’í World News Service:
The three Baha’is were arrested in [...]
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The Jerusalem Post has reported that six Bahá’ís in Yemen have been arrested.Says the Post:
Though not officially banned in Yemen, the Bahá’í religion is considered by some Muslims as heresy.
These arrests come on top of the detention of nine people for converting from Islam to Christianity. Conversion from Islam to any other religion is illegal [...]
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