The US state deptartment released a report a couple of days ago about Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East. As usual the Baha’is get a mention under Iran:

In 2004, the Government’s poor human rights record worsened, and it continued to commit numerous, serious abuses… The Government continued to discriminate against and harass the Baha’i community and other religious and ethnic minority groups, including Jews, Christians and Sunni and Sufi Muslims. Authorities bulldozed two sacred Baha’i sites.

Also possibly of interest to those of you reading this weblog was this little quote (also from the Iran section): ” The last forum for free debate, weblogs, started to come under pressure when the Government began arresting their creators and forcing them to sign false confessions.”

The whole report can be found here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 at 11:44 am and is filed under news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.