Archive for November, 2007

Rights group slams Iran crackdown on activists

The Center for the Defenders of Human Rights led by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel winner, issued a report about the Iranian government’s crackdown on students activists.  The group also expressed concern about the Baha’i community in Iran.

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From Iran to Utah, the passion for study burns

The Daily Utah Chronicle published an article, “From Iran to Utah: The Passion for Study Burns”, about the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, and the denial of education to Baha’i students.  They interviewed an Iranian Baha’i student who is now a sophomore at the University of Utah.

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U.N. Committee condemns human rights violations in Iran

NEW YORK, 20 November 2007 (BWNS) — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution today expressing “deep concern” about “ongoing systematic violations of human rights” in Iran. Continue Reading »

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Article in The Philadelphia Bulletin about the Persecution of Baha’is in Iran

Herb Denenberg of The Bulletin, Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper, has written an article about the persecution of Baha’is in Iran. You can access the article here.

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Murder with Impunity: Iran targets the Baha’is–again.

The November 2007 edition of the Weekly Standard has published an article by Paul Marshall, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, entitled “Murder with Impunity: Iran targets the Baha’is – again.”

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    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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