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CNN: Iranian media report Baha’i missionary arrests

05:48 pm on Jan 16th 2009

CNN.com posted an article titled “Iranian media report Baha’i missionary arrests”.

The article also includes a report on the arrest of six other Baha’is in Tehran earlier this week, and the adoption of a resolution yesterday by the European Parliament on human rights in Iran which makes a number of references to the persecution of the Baha’is 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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