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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10446

7 September 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/iran

06/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Condemnation of crackdown on Baha'i community in Iran. Speaking through her spokesperson, the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, condemned on Tuesday 6 September “the recent wave of arrests of Baha'i citizens, and the shutting down of an educational centre of the Baha'i community in Iran”. Repression of this religious community runs counter to fundamental liberties as set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Iran has...