Relatório da Anistia Internacional sobre a atual conjuntura no Irã

A organização não-governamental Anistia Internacional divulgou recentemente um novo relatório sobre a atual conjuntura no Irã. O documento faz menções à situação dos bahá'ís naquele país, incluindo a continuada detenção dos sete ex-membros da liderança nacional bahá'í iraniana, presos há mais de 19 meses.

Sob o título Iran: Election contested, repression compounded, o relatório enfoca os padrões de abusos naquele país antes, durante e especialmente após a eleição de junho de 2009.

A íntegra do texto do relatório da Anistia Internacional por ser acessada (e baixada) online em: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/123/2009

A fim de apresentá-lo à mídia, a Anistia Internacional divulgou hoje um newsflash. Também disponível online, o texto inclui entrevistas de duas tetemunhas a abusos recentes. (Veja em http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/post-election-iran-violations-some-worst-20-years-20091210)

Os trechos abaixo (em inglês) trazem referências diretas à situação dos Bahá'ís, que aparecem em duas seções diferentes:
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RUN-UP TO THE ELECTION

The weeks preceding the polls, despite intensified repression by state authorities, witnessed a lively election campaign, including live televised debates between the four approved candidates. Inspired by this, the Iranian public took greater interest in the campaign than had been expected. The campaign drew millions of people into the debate and many thousands onto the streets to hear candidates speak at rallies. What became known as the Green Movement – the colour of those supporting Mir Hossein Mousavi, and by extension, social and political reform – was born.

In the same period, however, repression significantly increased against people expressing support for social and political reform; against those seen by the intelligence and security services as disloyal to the system. Among those particularly targeted were students, women's rights activists, lawyers, advocates for greater rights for Iran’s ethnic minorities and unrecognized religious minorities, such as the Baha’is and the Ahl-e Haq.

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ONGOING PATTERNS OF ARREST

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Only three religious minorities – Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians – are allowed under Iran’s Constitution to practise their religious faith. Adherents of unrecognized religious groups such as Baha’is, and the Ahl-e Haq are particularly at risk of discrimination or other human rights abuses. Converts from Islam and evangelical Christians who proselytize, and Sunni Muslims (most of whom are members of Iran’s ethnic minorities), also face repression.

For example, following raids on the homes of 12 Baha’is in Tehran on 14 January 2009, six people were arrested. One was released shortly afterwards, but the other five spent around two months in Evin Prison before being released on bail. Seven leaders of the Baha’i community - Mahvash Sabet, Fariba Kamalabadi Taefi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Vahid Tizfahm - remain in detention in Evin Prison since their arrests in March and May 2008. Their trial – likely to be on charges which can carry the death penalty – has been postponed at least twice and they have not been granted access to lawyers of their choice.

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