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UN rapporteur: Slow progress for religious freedom

06:02 pm on Nov 27th 2006

Spero News posted the transcript from an exclusive interview between RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari and Asma Jahangir, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion.  This interview included a question about the status of the Baha’i community in Iran.

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  • About the Persecution

    Some 300,000 Baha’is live throughout Iran, making the Baha’i Faith the country’s largest minority religion. The persecution of Baha'is in Iran has been taking place since the religion began there in the mid-nineteenth century. More than 200 Baha’is were killed in Iran between 1978 and 1998, the majority by execution, and thousands more were imprisoned.More
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