The Baha’i International Community delivered a statement to the UN Human Rights Council yesterday on the situation of the Baha’is in Iran, stressing that arbitrary arrests and detentions are continuing.

Diane Ala’i, the representative of the BIC to the United Nations in Geneva, said that “Baha’is in Iran are not only subject to arbitrary detention—since 2005, there have been over 820 of such arrests, which are in  violation human rights norms—but throughout the judicial process they face an unjust treatment that clearly violates Iran’s own Penal and Criminal Procedure codes.”

“The Baha’is in Iran ask for no special privilege, but only for their rights, and they hope that the international community and the High Commissioner for Human Rights will continue to put pressure on the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to put an end to this manifestly unjust discrimination,” said Ms. Ala’i.

The full statement can be read here.