Amnesty International Probes Baha’i Slayings (7/30/1983)

          
          Amnesty Internclti?flal
          :..probes Baha i .sIay n,gs,
          NEW YORK — Amnesty In- heretical by authorities
          ternational and the chairman of Because the 17 singled out in
          • the U S. Holocaust Memorial June would not', recant their.
          Council have issued statements faith, they were hanged.;
          .of concern over. Iran's most re- The executlons, .;said Elie
          cent imprisonment and execu- Wiesel,.:chairm,afl:of the
          tion of members of the Baha'i Holocaust'MemOria1' C0un ,'
          religious group. . are “echoes of the Nazi cruel-
          Six aha. .i men, 10 women ties. (and) we must-proteSt this
          and a youth were executed in outrage with all our power.'
          Shiraz, Iran, in June, Amnesty “It js especially distressing:
          International said, bringing the that this occurs .in'. :' land ruledl : -‘
          total of .executed Baha'is since, by repi seiativesof oiie,of the,
          February to 21. . . . .world's greatrelig Ofls —Islam.
          At least 151. members Of the Believers in ;God of all men
          Báha'is have been killed in Iran . should spread coxnpasSiOfl not'
          since the revolution of 1979, the,. persection, ‘understanding', not
          organization charged hate”
          While Baha'is are usually ac- ‘ Amnesty. International said,
          cused by the Iranian govern- reports of. 5 l95 .executions in
          ment of espionage, Amnesty In- Iran have been receive4 since
          :ternational. believes the real the' revolution.. Others”.have'
          ‘reason for imprisonment and been' referred to,: officiallY as''
          execution is the members' re- deaths occuring during clashes
          ligious belief, regarded as with security forcesj__.__
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