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UNITED NATIONS — The UN yesterday expressed serious concerns about "severe limits" on the right to freedom of religion or belief in Iran, and specifically about the ongoing persecution of Iranian Baha'is.
The rebuke—the 29th such censure since 1985—came in an annual resolution on human rights in Iran, approved by a vote of 85 to 35 with 63 abstentions by the General Assembly's Third Committee.
The vote followed a September report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that said Baha'is "are the most severely persecuted religious minority" in Iran.
Further, a new report on the persecution of Baha'is in Iran was released by the Baha'i International Community on 25 October
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The rebuke—the 29th such censure since 1985—came in an annual resolution on human rights in Iran, approved by a vote of 85 to 35 with 63 abstentions by the General Assembly's Third Committee.
The vote followed a September report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that said Baha'is "are the most severely persecuted religious minority" in Iran.
Further, a new report on the persecution of Baha'is in Iran was released by the Baha'i International Community on 25 October
Read more at
http://news.bahai.org/story/1138?ut...wns/rss+(Bahá’í+World+News+Service+Headlines)