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GENEVA A groundbreaking report published today by the pre-eminent human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, states that the Iranian government’s 45-year systematic repression of the Baha’i religious minority amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution under international criminal law. The new 49-page report, titled “The Boot on My Neck: Iranian Authorities’ Crime of Persecution Against GENEVA A groundbreaking report published today by the pre-eminent human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, states that the Iranian government’s 45-year systematic repression of the Baha’i religious minority amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution under international criminal law. The new 49-page report, titled “The Boot on My Neck: Iranian Authorities’ Crime of Persecution Against
During the summer of 2022 alone, authorities raided dozens of Baha’i homes and arrested at least 30 people, among them Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet, two prominent members of the Baha’i community both of whom previously spent 10 years in prison. On May 22, 2022, in an oral statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council, Simin Fahandej, a BIC representative said, “More than 1,000 Baha’is in Iran are in “limbo” between their initial arrests, their legal hearings and their final summons