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The UN Headquarters buildings in New York City. The UN General Assembly yesterday condemned Iran for oppressing its citizens.UN Photo\/Mark Garten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Australian Baha’i Community has welcomed a United Nations resolution adopted yesterday which expresses \u201cdeep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations\u201d in Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The resolution, passed by the biggest margin in nearly two decades of such votes, condemns a range of human rights violations including discrimination against members of the Baha\u2019i Faith.<\/p>\n

Australian Baha\u2019i community spokesperson Natalie Mobini said the UN resolution was a very welcome move.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are particularly grateful to the Australian Government for being one of 42 co-sponsors of this resolution,\u201d Dr Mobini said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur community is pleased to see that the resolution condemns in such strong terms a wide range of abuses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose abuses include continuing discrimination against minorities, including members of the Baha\u2019i Faith, a dramatic increase in executions, the use of torture, the systematic targeting of human rights defenders, and pervasive violence against women.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Baha’is in particular, the resolution noted “escalating attacks on Baha’is and their defenders\u201d.<\/p>\n

It reported “a significant increase in the number of Baha’is arrested and detained” and “renewed measures to deny Baha’is employment in the public and private sectors\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dr Mobini noted that seven Baha\u2019i leaders, first jailed in 2008, remain imprisoned in appalling conditions despite the lack of any evidence of illegal activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, seven Baha’i educators in Iran have each received four- or five-year prison sentences for their involvement in an informal community initiative, known as the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), which provides tertiary education to young Baha\u2019is, who are banned from university.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition there are 88 other Baha\u2019is in prison for their faith, and many more awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

These violations against the Baha\u2019is in Iran are part of a systematic effort by the Iranian Government to eliminate as a viable entity the 300,000-strong Baha\u2019i community, the biggest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Mobini said the Australian Baha\u2019is, who include relatives of persecuted Baha\u2019is in Iran, were grateful not only to the Australian Government for co-sponsoring the UN resolution but also to the Federal and State Parliaments and individual MPs for speaking out against the persecution.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Australian MP Michael Danby was part of a group of international lawmakers who raised the situation of Baha\u2019i educators and students in a joint statement<\/a>. The other signatories were US Senators Mark Kirk and Joseph Lieberman, Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, British MP Denis MacShane, Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein, and Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris.<\/p>\n

For a full report on the resolution, visit the Baha’i World News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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