Baha\u2019i community<\/a> have faced heightened incitement and detention. In early February, the Baha\u2019i community issued a statement saying it was being \u201cscapegoated\u201d for protests that erupted in response to the country\u2019s economic crisis.<\/p>\n\u201cInternational condemnation of the Iranian government\u2019s persecution of the Baha\u2019i community is widespread and indisputable,\u201d said Principal Representative of the Baha\u2019i International Community to the United Nations Bani Dugal. \u201cThe Iranian government must heed these concerns \u2013 which have been repeated for so many decades \u2013 by respecting the rights of Baha\u2019is and all religious and ethnic minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Baha\u2019i community also cited a recent forced confession aired on Iran\u2019s Channel 2 in which two Baha\u2019i men were allegedly coerced into admitting guilt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is another attempt by the Iranian government to falsify the truth and present falsehoods to its own public. But this attempt is threadbare, and its baselessness is proven. During every period of national crisis, whether social, economic, or political, the Iranian authorities consistently and systematically scapegoated the Baha\u2019is,\u201d said Baha\u2019i International Community\u2019s United Nations Office in Geneva representative Simin Fahandej.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Baha\u2019i community is often among the first to be accused of false allegations, scapegoated, and targeted through coordinated disinformation and hate campaigns. This is a repeated pattern, and we are seeing it again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network told the Post<\/em> that it is investigating more than 2,000 cases of Kurdish citizens being arrested, in many instances violently and without judicial warrants, and has so far publicly named 470 detainees. The NGO added that because of the ongoing security situation, it had been unable to obtain reliable information about the identities of many of those killed; it has thus far identified 242 members of the Kurdish community killed by regime forces during the protests.<\/p>\n\u201cDue to the ongoing security situation, we have unfortunately been unable to obtain reliable information about the majority of those killed or to confirm many of their identities. So far, we have verified and documented the identities of 242 Kurdish citizens who were killed during the protests in Iran,\u201d the Network confirmed.<\/p>\n
Concerns by religious minorities and human rights experts heightened shortly before protests recommenced across the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
While the first round of protests was in response to the weakening of the rial and the overall declining economy, the new round is said to have been in response to the regime\u2019s brutality.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, students protested across five campuses in Tehran on the 40-day memorial for those killed in earlier demonstrations, and on Sunday, a demonstration erupted in Mashhad, reported by Iranian state-affiliated media.<\/p>\n
Iran International and Tousi reported that students at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran staged a protest and blocked a street near the campus, chanting, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, we are all together.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Sharif University of Technology in the capital, chants of \u201cDeath to Khamenei\u201d were allegedly heard along with \u201cLong live the King,\u201d referring to exiled monarch Reza Pahlavi.<\/p>\n
The Media Line and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN human rights experts demand that Iran reveal the fates of detainees, stop executions, and provide accountability amidst the brutal crackdown onRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/jerusalem_post_articles_818\/89258f5dbb7d6f28f6892f05cba860ce","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}