Chronology: Date 2011-09

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date	event	tags	firsts
2011 24 Sep 201-	The arrest of Abdolfattah Soltani, a senior member of the legal team (4 lawyers) representing a number of Bahá'ís in Iran awaiting trial for providing higher education to youth barred from university. Soltani is a co-founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, along with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi and others. The Tehran-based Centre was shut down in a police raid in December 2008. [BWNS849] In 2008 when Shirin Ebadi took the defense of seven Bahá'ís she was accused of changing her religion and her law office was attacked and faced other problems. [Iran Press Watch] U.S Bahá'í Office of Public Affairs Press Release. See interview with Mr Soltani by Iran Press Watch.	- Persecution; - Persecution, Education; Abdolfattah Soltani; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE); Education; Human rights; Iran; Lawyers; Yaran
2011 11 Sep 201-	A follow-up conference dubbed "Durban III" took place in New York City. It was boycotted by Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, United States and the Czech Republic, along with Austria, Bulgaria, France, and the United Kingdom. UN website Wikimilli.	Bahá'í International Community; Discrimination; New York, USA; New York, USA; Racism; UNESCO; United Nations


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