GENEVA (8 June 2016) – Two United Nations human rights experts today said that the current wave of incitement of hatred of the Baha’i community reflected in speeches made by religious, judiciary and political officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran “has exposed the Iranian authorities’ extreme intolerance for adherents of the religious minority group.” “Verbal attacks by state officials against an already vulnerable community like the Baha’is are extremely troubling not only because they directly violate Iran’s international legal obligation not to discriminate against its citizens, but because they…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 08 June 2016. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
