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Iran’s persecution of Baha’is branded ‘crime against humanity’

Iran's national flag flies in the capital, Tehran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP]

Iran’s persecution of its Baha’i minority has been branded “a crime against humanity”.

Human Rights Watch alleged in a report released on Monday that Iran’s largest non-Muslim minority has faced a “spectrum of abuses” since the Islamic revolution of 1979. The New York-based NGO suggested that the case fits the remit of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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