Business of Supply   is the fact that the office, specifically in Iran, focused mainly on the Baha'i community. I have absolutely no problem with defending that community. I have met with representatives of Baha'i groups. I think it is extremely important. They are in a very difficult situation in Iran, which

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   at interfering with shortwave radios, shutting down newspapers, and jailing people, but when it comes to social media, to Internet digital technology, the people of Iran are always one step ahead of them. In our initiatives, which are mostly online initiatives, we are trying to provide

Foreign Affairs   abuser. Missing were critics of Iran's human rights abuses, such as that country's religious minorities: Baha'is, Baluch, and Iranian Kurds. My question is for the foreign affairs minister. Is this what the Prime Minister means by Canada is back, rewards of embassies for despots

Iran   discrimination faced by the Baha'i minorities in Iran. That was said by Malcolm Stuart of Amnesty International. I was just about to note that Nobel laureate, Shirin Ebadi, twice appeared before our subcommittee on human rights and spoke to us about the situation in Iran. Each time we

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not as familiar with that particular case in Iraq, but I can certainly look into that and get back. We've engaged fairly regularly on the situation in Iran. I've developed a very good relationship with the Baha'i community here in Canada. Also, when I've

Iran   Israeli citizens, as many Jews, as possible. Let me go through some of these things now systematically. I will start with religious persecution. With good reason we have heard about the terrible persecution of the Baha'i in Iran. The Baha'i religion began in Iran and has had its

Iran   given the advanced age of the entire Baha'i leadership. Despite repeated requests from both the defendants and their attorneys, neither official copies of the original verdict nor the ruling on appeal have been disclosed to date. The plight of the Baha'i in Iran offers a looking

Iran Accountability Week  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, an all-party parliamentary group launched the fourth annual Iran Accountability Week at a most propitious time, as the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran have overshadowed, not sanitized, the Iranian regime's massive domestic oppression, including

Religious Freedom  Mr. Speaker, this May 14th marked eight years of incarceration for Iran's seven Baha'i leaders. They have been imprisoned for practising their faith, a fundamental right guaranteed under international and Iranian law. They are among hundreds of prisoners of conscience held

Baha'i Community in Iran  Mr. Speaker, tomorrow will mark eight years of imprisonment for seven innocent Baha’i religious leaders. Their only crime is freely practising their faith in Iran and serving the needs of their fellow believers. On May 14, 2008, morning raids tore these innocent men and women

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   is documenting the deterioration of the state of human rights in Iran under President Rouhani. The number of executions has actually gone up to more than 600—624—in the course of the past year. The number of Baha'i citizens being imprisoned solely because of their faith has increased. We

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   as far as the lifestyle in Iran goes in order to stay out of jail. Simply for being a Baha'i person and loving people and telling people that you're Baha'i, you can be incarcerated in Iran. Simply for being a Jew, you can be incarcerated in Iran. Simply by putting one entry in a blog

Iran   of Iran's Baha'i leadership, an execution binge that has seen 650 executions since Rouhani took office last August, and the continuing unjust imprisonment of more than 900 prisoners of conscience. Today parliamentarians heard from FDD experts Mark Dubowitz and Ali Alfoneh

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on the Baha'i community in Iran. This subject is very important to our government. The report does an excellent job in highlighting

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   any newspaper, never. They have nothing—no newspaper, no magazine, no media, and even in Teheran they are not allowed to have their own mosque. Also, imagine a woman from Kurdistan who is LGBT, a Sunni lesbian who converts to Baha'i in Iran, and who has a Ph.D. in medicine