I am writing to request that your Commission, the White House and the U.S. Department of State do more to raise the case of the seven Baha’is who are scheduled to go on trial on Saturday in Iran and to call for their immediate release. In addition to the hundreds of Iranians who have been detained in the context of Iran’s disputed presidential poll, many other “security detainees” arrested long before the June election remain behind bars. Several are “prisoners of conscience” who are being held without due process and solely because they peacefully pursued freedom of expression, freedom of association or religious beliefs.
