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Baha’is Persecution Continues in Iran (San Francisco Post – 9/4/83)
OAKLAND, CA. SAN FRANCISCO POST TRI. W. 15,000 SAN FRANCISCO METROPOLITAN AREA Baha'is have been im- prisoned. The recent arrests follow closely the late June abduction• arid disappearance of two promirient Baha'is • August 5. • in Tehran and mob at- “We don't know of any tacks on July 1 which charges,” said Betty forced 130 Baha'i -men, Garcia, Baha'i women, and children to spokesperson. “But we flee. their village near know that more than 250 Sari. Moreover, 17 • Baha'is are in jails in Baha'is, including seven Iran ‘and none of them women• and three have been charged with teenage girls, were any 'cirnes.” • hanged in June -in Since mid-July, •63 Shiraz. In Iran editions ,of The New August took place in York Times and the Los various parts of Iran: 13 Angeles Times, says. were arrested in that the Baha'is “have Urwniyyih, nine in Sari, been systematically one in Tehran, and one persecuted for the mere in Ramiyyan. fact that they adhere to Since 1979, 142 Baha'is'. a religion other than have been killed and 16 Islam. Such persecution have disappeared. Tfie and these cruel and un- Baha'i Faith is regarded just executions seem to. as- heresy- by Iran's us a contradiction of all ruling clerics, who have. that is best in the launched an all-out traditions of Islam and campaign of per- thelranianpeople.” secution against, the The arrests -of early religion . / BP00025 8 SEP 4 Bqha'is Oakland Baha'is • ‘received word recently that- 24 more .Baha'is, - including 10 women, - were imprisoned in Iran between August. 3 and __________ __________________ Persecution Continues Iran S persecution of States, have protested its •! fl .000-member- the persecution of the Baha' i community has Bahai,'is in an open let- drawn the protests - of tel ' to the Iranian -President. , eagan,' the-' Government. “It is United States. Congress, significant that the 89 several' - ‘nations' men arid'Wornen who parliaments, ‘ the signed ‘the letter come European Parliament, - from all parts, of! the. the United' Nations Middle East, Europe, Human Rights Corn- ‘ and North America. mission, , a icl Amnesty They are Jews, International. . - Muslims,' Christians, and Baha'is,” according to” Garcia. The letter published' in August 7 - Also, 89 professors of Iranian and Islamic studies in' the United —. ——.-----‘.