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Australian government expresses deep concern for Baha’i leaders

07:20 pm on Feb 18th 2009

The Australian government has stated its concern for the Baha’i leaders in Iran:

An Austrailian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokeswoman said that the lack of due legal process ”makes it hard to believe there is any basis to the charges or that they will receive a fair trial.” The Canberra Times posted an article titled “DFAT ‘concerned ‘ over fate of Baha’i leaders”.

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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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