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GENEVA, Thursday (AAP-Reu-
ter). — A United Nations human-
rights panel asked the UN Secre-
tary-Gcneral. Dr Wa!dhcirn, yester-
day to make efforts to stop “system-
atic pcrsecution” of Baha'is in Iran.
A resolution from an expert subcom.
mission said attacks on Iran's estimated
300,000 Baha'is were “motivated by
religious intoicrance and a desire to
climate the Baha 'i faith r m the land
of its birth”.
The experts had heard sttements
‘clearly aemonstrating the systematic
pcrsccution of the Baha'is in Iran, in-
cluding summary arrests, torture, beat-
ings. executions, murders, kidnappings.
disappc irar 1 ccs, abductions and many
other forms of harassment”.
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