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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/UN-report-assails-Iran-for-persecution-of-religious-minorities-347089

UN Report Blasts Iran for Persecution of Religious Minorities

(Jerusalem Post) Benjamin Weinthal - Wide-scale repression of religious freedom in Iran has continued during Hassan Rouhani's tenure, according to a detailed March report by Ahmed Shaheed, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. "As of 3 January 2014, at least 307 members of religious minorities were in detention, of whom 136 were Baha'is, 90 Sunni Muslims, 50 Christians, 19 Dervish Muslims...[and] two were Zoroastrians," the report said. "Iranian authorities at the highest levels have designated house churches and evangelical Christians as threats to national security." The writer is a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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