Monday, October 16, 2006

U.S. decries human rights violations in Iran

Iran News - London
Thursday, April 6, 2006

In its annual report on U.S. efforts at encouraging human rights worldwide, entitled "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2005 - 2006", the U.S. State Department accused Iran of carrying out “summary executions, discrimination based on ethnicity and religion, harassment and arrest of journalists and bloggers, disappearances, extremist vigilantism, widespread use of torture, and other degrading treatment”.

It charged that the hard-line iranian government continued to discriminate against and arrest members of the Baha’i religious community. Other religious and ethnic minority groups, including Jews, Christians, and Sunni and Sufi Muslims faced continued social, political, and economic discrimination, it said.

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Monday, October 16, 2006

U.S. decries human rights violations in Iran
Iran News - London
Thursday, April 6, 2006

In its annual report on U.S. efforts at encouraging human rights worldwide, entitled "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2005 - 2006", the U.S. State Department accused Iran of carrying out “summary executions, discrimination based on ethnicity and religion, harassment and arrest of journalists and bloggers, disappearances, extremist vigilantism, widespread use of torture, and other degrading treatment”.

It charged that the hard-line iranian government continued to discriminate against and arrest members of the Baha’i religious community. Other religious and ethnic minority groups, including Jews, Christians, and Sunni and Sufi Muslims faced continued social, political, and economic discrimination, it said.

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