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Jul15

PM underlines concern for Iran’s Baha’is at historic meeting with Bahá’í delegation

Prime Minister Gordon Brown restated his support for the seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders during the first meeting ever to occur between a UK Prime Minister and representatives of the UK Baha’i community, which was established in 1898. MP Lembit Öpik of Montgomeryshire, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha’is group, also attended the [...]

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Jul08

Westminster debates trial of Baha’is in Iran

Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis MP called for “transparency”, “openness” and “international best practice” in the upcoming trial of seven Iranian Bahá’í leaders, expected to take place on July 11, 2009. The Foreign Minister issued this call to action during a Westminster Hall debate held in London’s Houses of Parliament on July 8, 2009. Access [...]

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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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