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Iran: Experts alarmed at systematic targeting of Baha’i women
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Iran: Experts alarmed at systematic targeting of Baha’i women

December 23, 2024 FoRB NGO Committee Bureau

GENEVA – Independent human rights experts* today expressed serious concern at what appears to be an increase in systematic targeting of women belonging to the Baha’i religious minority throughout the country. The experts said that Baha’i women were being targeted through arrests, summoning for interrogation, enforced disappearance, raids on homes, confiscation of personal belongings, limitations on freedom of movement and prolonged consecutive deprivations of liberty.

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 23 December 2024. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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