Iran: Baha'i Faith

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate the Government has made of the number of (a) British and (b) other nationals of Baha'i faith who have been (i) detained, (ii) sentenced to imprisonment, (iii) murdered, (iv) executed and (v) persecuted in other ways in Iran in each year since 2005.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

​The UK Government does not hold historical data on the number of Baha'is detained or persecuted in Iran. The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran estimates that, as of March 2017, there were 90 Baha'is detained in Iran, all for charges related to their religious belief and practices.

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