BIC GENEVA — In a merciless escalation, and simply two days after earlier assaults on Baháʼís throughout Iran, as much as 200 Iranian authorities and native brokers have sealed off the village of Roushankouh, in Mazandaran province, the place numerous Baháʼís stay, and are utilizing heavy earthmoving tools to demolish their properties.
- Roads into and out of the village have been blocked.
- Anybody who tried to problem the brokers had been arrested and handcuffed.
- Brokers have confiscated the cellular units of these current and prohibited filming.
- Neighbors have been warned to remain of their properties and barred from filming or photographing.
- 4 properties that had been below building have already been destroyed.
- The authorities are putting in strong metallic fences to limit entry of the Baháʼís to their very own properties.
The Baháʼís in Roushankouh have been focused many instances up to now with land confiscations and residential demolitions. However this transfer follows weeks of intensifying persecution of the Baháʼís: over 100 have been both raided or arrested in latest weeks.
“We ask everybody to boost their voice and name for these dreadful acts of blatant persecution to be instantly stopped. Day-after-day there was recent information of persecution of the Baháʼís in Iran, demonstrating unmistakably that the Iranian authorities have a step-by-step plan that they’re implementing, first blatant lies and hate speech, then raids and arrests, and at this time land grabs, occupations, and the destruction of properties,” stated Diane Ala’i, consultant of the Bahá’í Worldwide Group (BIC) to the United Nations in Geneva, referring to the previous a number of weeks. “What might be subsequent? The worldwide group should act earlier than it’s too late.”
