GENEVA (22 August 2022) – UN experts* today called on Iranian authorities to stop persecution and harassment of religious minorities and end the use of religion to curtail the exercise of fundamental rights. “We are deeply concerned at the increasing arbitrary arrests, and on occasions, enforced disappearances of members of the Baha’i faith and the destruction or confiscation of their properties, in what bears all the signs of a policy of systematic persecution,” the experts said.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 22 August 2022. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
