Iran - Religious freedom profile 01/07/2008
Executive summary
Since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s religious and ethnic minorities have suffered gross human rights violations, including extra-judicial and judicial killings, incommunicado detentions, confiscation of property, denial of education and inequality in legal matters. Though the intensity of the persecution of minorities decreased during the initial years of reformist President Khatami’s government, the last years of his administration and the new government of President Ahmadinejad has seen a renewed deterioration in human rights. This has been a cause of great concern for religious and ethnic minorities in Iran. During the last two years, there have been fresh waves of arrests, detention and intimidation of Muslim converts to Christianity and Bahá’ís.
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