In recent months, Baha’is in Ahvaz, Semnan and Tabriz, #Iran - TopicsExpress



          

In recent months, Baha’is in Ahvaz, Semnan and Tabriz, #Iran have been denied the right to bury their dead, according to the Baha’i World News Service. These incidents are part of broader efforts to interfere with the burial of Baha’is, which have also included the vandalism and destruction of a number of #Bahai cemeteries. “It goes beyond common justice that Iranian Baha’is not only face widespread persecution across the entire span of their lives – deprived of education, jobs, and freedom of worship – but that they also are repeatedly being denied the dignity of a decent burial,” said Diane Ala’i, the representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations in Geneva. Read the full story here: news.bahai.org/story/1034
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:13:25 +0000

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