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VOA: Rights Violations in Iran

11:10 am on Nov 25th 2008

Voice of America has published a piece on the Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran quarterly report on human rights for the period ending September 2008.  The report mentions the continuing repression 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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