[Telegraph-UK] Nazila Ghanea - Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Yet Iran's Prosecutor General, Ayatollah Qorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi, has now declared that the very expression of affiliation to the Baha'i faith is illegal. The 300,000 Baha'is make up Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority. The Iranian government instructed all of its agencies back in October 2005 to identify and monitor the activities of every single Baha'i in Iran. Baha'is have been imprisoned, flogged and fined. The writer is a lecturer in international human rights law at the University of Oxford.
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