NEW YORK — Allegations by Iran that six Bahá’ís were arrested last week “for security reasons and not for their faith” are utterly baseless and without documentation, said the Bahá’í International Community today.
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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran confirmed on Tuesday it has arrested members of the Bahai religious community, whose faith is banned in the Islamic republic, for acting against the national interest.
"This is a group that has acted against the country's interests and has links with foreigners, especially the Zionists (Israel)," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.---
OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada expressed concern over the apparent arrest of six Iranian Bahai followers and called for their release, while deploring an "ongoing decline" in the country's human rights situation.
"Canada is deeply concerned by the arbitrary arrest of six Iranian Bahais" on May 14, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said Friday.
Canada.com (Saturday, May 17)
UNITED NATIONS - Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier has criticized Iran's jailing of six Baha'i leaders this week without charges as "unacceptable."
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Health and Safety May Be At Risk
(16 May 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on Iranian judicial authorities to account, in terms of Iranian and international law, for the detention on 14 May 2008 of six leading members of the Baha’i faith, who have been taken to Evin prison. All are members of the Baha’i national coordination group, the “Friends;” the seventh member has been imprisoned in Mashhad since 5 March 2008.
(In late 2007, human rights activists working in the framework of the Dutch nongovernmental organization Foundation for Human Security in the Middle East resolved to found an international initiative focused on the urgent challenges faced by the Iranian people, and in particular civil society and the human rights community. )
---Baha’i leaders arrested in Iran
Friday, 16th May 2008. 11:51am
By: George Conger.
In a series of pre-dawn raids, the leaders of the Bahá’í community in Iran have been arrested by the security services.
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