Iran: persecution

Yesterday, IRNA reported that in West-Azerbaijan province in clashes with the Revolutionary Guards 17 members of the kurdish PEJAK have been killed.
They did not specify when the fighting took place.
Iran told Iraq that it if necessary pursuits Kurdish rebels inside Iraq.





Iranian universities expelled almost 70 students after discovering they were of the Baha’i faith. This reported the Baha’i International Community on Wednesday.
After more than 25 years during which Iranian Baha'is were outright banned from attending public and private universities in Iran, some 178 Baha'i students were admitted last fall to various schools around the country after the government changed its policies and removed religious identification from entrance examination papers.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution the Baha'i, as largest religious minority in Iran faced systematic religious persecution.
More than 200 Baha'is have been killed, hundreds have been imprisoned, and thousands have had property or businesses confiscated, been fired from jobs, and/or had pensions terminated.
According to a secret 1991 government memorandum, Baha'is must be expelled from universities, either in the admission process or during the course of their studies, once it becomes known that they are Baha'is.
Diane Ala'i, the Baha'i International Community's representative to the United Nations in Geneva asks the international community to continue to continue to monitor this situation closely, and also continuing the efforts of educators and university administrators around the world who have participated in a campaign to protest the treatment of Baha'i students in Iran.


Sunday, March 4, five women are on trial charged with "acting against national security by participating in an illegal gathering.". The names of the women are:
Nusheen Ahmadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Sussan Tahmasebi,
Shahla Entesari and Fariba Davoodi Mohajer.
With the same offense, but not set their court date yet, are charged: Alieh Eghdamdoost, Bahareh Hedayat, Delaram Ali and Azadeh Forghani.
All these women are charged for peacefully protesting laws that discriminate against them at a demonstration, held 12 juni 2006.
This demonstration was ended by brute police force and a lot of women got arrested.




In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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