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May21

Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on Baha’i arrests

The Presidency of the European Union released a statement about the Baha’i arrests in Iran:

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May15

Baha’i Leaders Arrested in Iran

Members of the national coordinating group of the Iranian Baha’i community   On May 14, Iranian intelligence officials arrested six Baha’i leaders and took them to the notorious Evin prison. The imprisonments are ominously similar to episodes in the 1980s when scores of Iranian Baha’i leaders were summarily rounded up and subsequently executed.

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Jan24

State Department calls for the release of three young Bahá’ís

Sean McCormack, U.S. State Department spokesman, issued a statement yesterday expressing deep concern for the tragic death of an Iranian Kurdish student detained by the Ministry of Intelligence. The statement also called for the Iranian regime to release all individuals held without due process and a fair trial, including three young Bahá’ís.

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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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