In an interview with Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News in Britain last week in Tehran, Ms | |
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Ebadi, a human rights lawyer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, has been under severe pressure from the Iranian government as she prepares to defend the Bahai group | In a commentary he wrote for CNN, Mr |
The Shrine of the Bab, , is located on the slopes of Mount Carmel, making the Bahais one of the many faiths that regard this area as the Holy Land | A century ago, when the Bahais came to Haifa, it was part of the Ottoman Empire |
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In late December, the police and judicial authorities , seizing her computers and her client files | The Bahai are discriminated against in some other Muslim countries, where they are far less numerous than in Iran |
They believe that humanity is one race, that men and women are equal and that all religions and prophets are derived from the same source, God.
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