{"id":18872,"date":"2015-08-04T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/18872-religious-minorities-face-dire-situation-in-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-15T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:43:33","slug":"religious-minorities-face-dire-situation-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/religious-minorities-face-dire-situation-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious minorities face \u201cdire\u201d situation in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"uscirf-logo-300\" class=\" size-full wp-image-43647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/uscirf-logo-300.jpg\" alt=\"uscirf-logo-300\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Religious minorities continue to face a &#8220;dire&#8221; situation in Iran under the mullahs&#8217; rule, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years have passed since President [Hassan] Rouhani assumed office, and for two years he has failed on his promise to improve the climate for religious freedom, particularly for religious minority communities,\u201d said Robert P. George, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, the situation for religious minority groups \u2014 including Baha\u2019is, Christians, and Sufi Muslims \u2014 remains dire, as it does for dissenting Shi&#8217;a and Sunni Muslims,\u201d Mr. George, a nationally known law professor at Princeton University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/3\/irans-hassan-rouhani-chided-on-persecution-of-reli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">told The Washington Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baha\u2019is, in particular, are being mistreated, he said, with authorities closing their businesses and wreaking financial havoc on the persecuted minority.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cChristian church services continue to be raided and worshippers arrested, and dissenting Muslims continue to be imprisoned and tortured,\u201d Mr. George said.<\/p>\n<p>Imprisonments have continued apace during Rouhani&#8217;s two-year tenure, and USCIRF Monday called for the immediate release of hundreds of prisoners of conscience. These include Pastor Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American Christian from Idaho; Behnam Irani, an evangelical Christian leader; Ayatollah Mohammed Kazemeini Boroujerdi, a dissident Shi&#8217;a Muslim cleric; and members of the Baha\u2019i community, including the Baha\u2019i Seven (Afif Naemimi, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Vahid Tizfahm, Fariba Kamalabadi, Mahvash Sabet, and Saeid Rezaie).<\/p>\n<p>The State Department has designated Iran as a \u201ccountry of particular concern\u201d since 1999 over its systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>People imprisoned for breaking the Iranian regime&#8217;s law are often deemed \u201csecurity prisoners\u201d instead of \u201cprisoners of conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Abedini, 35, has been \u201cviciously beaten\u201d many times for not recanting Christianity, according to a June article in the Christian Post. He is serving an eight-year prison sentence for threatening national security.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the USCIRF said in its annual report for 2015 that the government of Iran \u201ccontinues to engage in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince his June 2013 election, President Hassan Rouhani has not delivered on his campaign promises to strengthen civil liberties for religious minorities,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/faith-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">NCRI Plan on Provisional Government&#8217;s Relations with Religion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/18857-human-rights-three-others-hanged-in-northern-iran-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights: Three others hanged in northern Iran prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/18844-iran-ncri-delegation-addresses-international-conference-on-human-rights-in-the-italian-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">NCRI delegation addresses international conference on human rights in the Italian Senate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious minorities continue to face a &ldquo;dire&rdquo; situation in Iran under the mullahs&rsquo; rule, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday. &ldquo;Two years have passed since President [Hassan] Rouhani assumed office, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-18872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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