Comments on: Iran Persecutes Citizens; PRs Influencers

By: Befriended Stranger » Protect the innocent Baha’is of Iran

Befriended Stranger » Protect the innocent Baha’is of Iran — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:56:56 +0000

[...] news are spreading all over the internet. The Iranian government is set to persecute the innocent members its Baha’i community, a [...]

By: Eric Mondschein

Eric Mondschein — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:15:04 +0000

Thanks for raising the issue of human rights and religious freedom in Iran in general and the Baha’is in particular. It is a shame that most media outlets do not carry this story or the continuing persecution in Iran that has been specifically addressed by the US Commission on Religious Freedom Abroad and the UN General Assembly. Is it that the media does not care about religious freedom?

By: On the Prosecution of Baha’is in Iran: Puts in question the legitimacy of Iran as a modern state | Baha'i Views

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:11:17 +0000

[...] http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/02/11/iran-persecutes-citizens-prs-influencers/ The seven members of a national Baha’i coordinating committee were arrested in March and May of 2008 and have been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison. At no time during their incarceration have they been given access to their legal counsel, Mrs. Shirin Ebadi. Mrs. Ebadi has been harassed, intimidated, and threatened since taking on their case and has not been given access to their case files. The prosecution of the leaders is just one step in a 30-year-long systematic campaign orchestrated by the government to eliminate the Baha’i community as a viable entity in Iran, the birthplace of the Bahá’í Faith. Documentary evidence exists on this campaign, http://iran.bahai.us/documents/. [...]