About: OEA
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Posts by OEA:
- CNN: Baha’i woman recalls imprisonment in Iran on 31 Aug 2010
- Roxana Saberi writes on behalf of “Bahai torchbearers” on 28 Aug 2010
- Cherie Blair: “Iran is attempting to decapitate its Baha’i community” on 25 Aug 2010
- Lawyer Shirin Ebadi “stunned” by reported 20-year jail terms for Baha’i leaders on 16 Aug 2010
- Foreign Policy blog covers sentencing of Baha’i leaders on 15 Aug 2010
- Secretary of State Clinton: “We have not forgotten the Baha’i community in Iran” on 12 Aug 2010
- LA Times blog covers sentencing of Iranian Baha’i leaders on 11 Aug 2010
- U.S. religious freedom commission “condemns 20-year sentence of Baha’is prisoners” on 11 Aug 2010
- Governments speak out for seven Baha’i leaders each sentenced to 20 years in prison for their beliefs on 11 Aug 2010
- Amnesty International condemns sentencing of Iranian Baha’i leaders on 10 Aug 2010
- Human Rights Watch issues statement to “Free Baha’i Leaders” on 10 Aug 2010
- Iranian Baha’i leaders sentenced to 20 years in prison, reports say on 08 Aug 2010
- Detention extended for seven Iranian Baha’i leaders on 05 Aug 2010
- The Baha’is of Ivel: Undaunted spirit on 12 Jul 2010
- BBC News: Iran’s Baha’i community fear rise in persecution on 02 Jul 2010
- Houston Chronicle highlights religious freedom, Baha’is of Iran on 01 Jul 2010
- Radio Farda interviews Baha’i whose home was destroyed in Ivel on 29 Jun 2010
- Homes demolished in campaign to drive Baha’is out of Iranian village on 28 Jun 2010
- Trial of seven Iranian Baha’i leaders appears to have ended on 14 Jun 2010
- Ongoing trial of Iran’s Baha’i leaders highlighted on global day of action on 13 Jun 2010
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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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