IRANIAN GOVERNMENT PERSECUTION OF THE BAHA'I FAITH

EDM number 584 in 1995-96, proposed by Roseanna Cunningham on 06/03/1996.

That this House condemns the Iranian government's continued persecution of adherents to the Baha'i faith, a persecution which has resulted in 201 deaths and 15 disappearances since 1979, the current imprisonment of five Baha'is held because of their religious beliefs, the continued confiscation of Baha'i personal and community property, the dismissal of Baha'is from employment on purely religious grounds, the denial of higher education to Baha'i youth and the general denial of civil rights to adherents of that faith; and calls on the United Kingdom Government, the European Union and the United Nations to pursue all available means to effect a change in the Iranian government's treatment of members of the Baha'i religion.

This motion has been signed by a total of 71 MPs.