Bahá’í World News Service

The United Nations General Assembly has condemned Iran for its continuing violations of human rights, the 30th such resolution since 1985.

By a vote of 81–30 with 70 abstentions, the General Assembly on Dec. 19, 2017, approved a five-page resolution expressing concern over illegal practices ranging from torture, poor prison conditions, arbitrary detention, and curbs on freedom of religion or belief to state-endorsed discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities as well as women.

The resolution expressed specific concern over Iran’s treatment of members of the Bahá’í Faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. It highlighted the economic and educational discrimination against them and called on Iran to release the more than 90 Bahá’ís who are unjustly held in Iranian prisons.

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Second and third members of Yárán complete 10-year sentences

Behrooz Tavakkoli, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Bahá’ís in Iran who were imprisoned due to religious beliefs, completed his unjust 10-year prison sentence as of early December. Story on news.bahai.org

Fariba Kamalabadi, another member of the Yárán, was released a little over a month earlier. Although no longer bound by the confines of prison, these two return to life in a country that has not changed with respect to its prejudicial and unjust treatment of Bahá’ís. Story on news.bahai.org