US state dept. report on human rights in the middle east

Written by ry on March 30th, 2005

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.

1 Comments so far ↓

  1. Apr
    25
    12:13
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    Agustin Rodriguez

    Dear Friends,
    I would like to join you all in prayer and offer them on behalf of
    our brothers in Persia.
    We here in Spain also condemn these persecutions and hope that soon All Mighty God will arrest the hand of the tyrant

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