Hywel Williams – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hywel Williams on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will call for the immediate release of the seven Baha’i leaders imprisoned in Iran since 14 May 2008.

Hugh Robertson

We have repeatedly expressed concern at the sentencing of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran to 20 years imprisonment. We raised the treatment of Baha’is with the UN Special Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Council in March 2014, and in our contacts with the Iranian authorities. We will continue to call on the Iranian government to ensure that all Iranian citizens are able to exercise their right to freedom of religion, free from persecution and harassment.