Iran Press Watch: The Baha'i Community |
- Baha’i student expelled from Sari
- Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire makes statement to Canadian Senate
- Germany warns Tehran over executions of Bahai followers
| Baha’i student expelled from Sari Posted: 21 Jun 2010 04:32 PM PDT  Nagin Siyahi ( نگین سیاحی ) (Khabarnavard blog, 17 June 2010) Nagin Siyahi ( نگین سیاحی ), has been expelled from the University of Sari, following the expulsion of two other Bahais students recently. She was in the second semester of a course in agriculture. At the same time, the university is preparing to hold seminars on the Bahai Faith, part of the accelerating spread of systematic institutionally-supported anti-Bahai propaganda throughout Iranian society in recent years.  Sari (/Sārī/ Mazandarani: ساری, Persian: ساری) is the provincial capital of Mazandaran Source: Khabar Navard, Persian, Source: Sen McGlinn’s blog, Translation into English |
| Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire makes statement to Canadian Senate Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:15 PM PDT  Senate of Canada [Senator Romeo Dallaire, formerly Force Commander of UNAMIR, the UN peacekeeping force for Rwanda 1993-1994, speaks to the Canadian Senate of "state-sanctioned persecution" extending to the Baha'i community in Iran. "The Iranian government has sanctioned arbitrary arrests and detention, mass expulsion from educational institutions, and denial of employment in the public sector, along with the incitement of hatred and the constant threat of violence." 'Having banned the elected bodies and the ad hoc groups responsible for seeing to the needs of the Baha'i community, the Government of Iran is now attempting to prevent Baha'is from having any form of community life, a flagrant denial of the religious freedoms outlined in Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." (from BWNS). The following is an excerpt from the 3rd Session, 40th Parliament, Volume 147, Issue 39, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. You can read the entire transcript here. Editor] Baha’i Community in Iran Hon. Roméo Antonius Dallaire: Honourable senators, I would like to talk to you about a most serious situation in terms of preventing mass atrocities and potentially even genocide against the Baha’i community in Iran. Honourable senators, I rise to draw your attention to the extremely difficult situation confronting the Baha’i community of Iran. With roughly 300,000 members, the Baha’i community is Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. Honourable senators may be aware that the Iranian government, ever suspicious of religious minorities, systematically persecutes leaders from the Baha’i community in violation of domestic and international laws. Seven members of the group that coordinated the social and spiritual affairs of the Baha’i community in Iran have been imprisoned for two years on trumped-up charges. Their trial took place this past Saturday. It has now concluded and the verdict is eagerly being applied. However, state-sanctioned persecution also extends to the broader Baha’i community. The Iranian government has sanctioned arbitrary arrests and detention, mass expulsion from educational institutions, and denial of employment in the public sector, along with the incitement of hatred and the constant threat of violence. As a member of the United Nations’ Secretary-General’s Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention I can say that there is no clearer example of a nation leading its way into a potential genocide scenario. It is meeting all the criteria. Having banned the elected bodies and the ad hoc groups responsible for seeing to the needs of the Baha’i community, the Government of Iran is now attempting to prevent Baha’is from having any form of community life, a flagrant denial of the religious freedoms outlined in Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The government’s efforts to identify and monitor individual members of the Baha’i community are a particularly troubling part of the strategy to eliminate the Baha’i community of Iran as a viable entity. In the past, aggressive efforts to identify members of a minority group often have been the precursor to deliberate and premeditated violence in the form of ethnic cleansing and, ultimately, genocide. Individual members of the Baha’i faith have been summoned to government offices and asked to identify members of their communities who are involved in planning religious gatherings and other events. Others have been ordered to leave their homes or to sign agreements stating that they will no longer speak to specific individuals. The Ministry of Intelligence also disrupts events and asks those in attendance if they are members of the Baha’i administration and how they are receiving the messages from the international governing body of Baha’i in the United Kingdom. As well, the government has been known to spread misinformation about the Baha’i community, claiming that they are spies and that they encourage other Iranians to take whatever action they wish in response to baseless allegations against members of the Baha’i community. We are watching genocide in slow motion in Iran. Source: BWNS, here, |
| Germany warns Tehran over executions of Bahai followers Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:33 PM PDT  Investers.com The Federal Government is sharpening its tone vis-Ã -vis Tehran. Last Tuesday [ 15 June], the Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of the Islamic Republic in Berlin, Ali Reza Sheik Attar. The cause for the summons of the confidant of President Mahmud Ahmandinezhad was threatening death sentences against members of the Bahai community. The about 300,000 members of the religious community living in Iran, whose faith has developed from Shi’i Islam, are considered apostates there. Since its spiritual centre is located in Israeli Haifa, Tehran imputes them to be agents of the Jewish state. State Secretary Wolf-Ruthart Born told the ambassador that the Federal Government is concerned about the life of seven leading representatives of the religious community. The Iranian state attorney’s office accused the Bahai, already arrested two years ago, above all of espionage “for the Zionists” as well as propaganda against the Islamic Republic. Born emphasized that the Federal Government rejects the death penalty in general. It hopes that it will not be imposed against the Bahai. In mid-week, the Foreign Ministry then rebuffed Tehran’s Vice Foreign Minister Ali Ahani. Ahani had specially travelled to Berlin to mitigate the mood in Berlin in the nuclear conflict. It irritates the regime that within the EU, Germany as the traditionally close partner in business and talks is the greatest supporter of a sharp European policy of sanctions. Ahani was told in the Foreign Ministry that the sanctions are a reaction to the years of Iran’s attitude. Tehran will now have to see how it can rebuild lost trust. BBC Monitoring. Copyright BBC. Source: Investor’s, http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Newsfeed/Article/114916642/201006210707/Germany-warns-Tehran-over-executions-of-Bahai-followers.aspx |
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