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CNN: Lawyer: Iran has no evidence against Baha’i prisoners

12:34 pm on Aug 16th 2009

In an article published online by CNN on August 13, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi called for the release seven Baha’i prisoners falsely accused of espionage and other crimes. Ebadi, who is the senior attorney registered with the court to defend the Baha’is, said Iranian authorities do not have any evidence against the seven prisoners.

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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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