May 14 Tip: Contact Congress TODAY about Baha'is imprisoned in Iran

Contact Congress TODAY about Baha'is imprisoned in Iran
(the May 14 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

Please join the Louisville Baha'i community in a stand for human rights

and a show of Louisville’s world-embracing compassion by

calling your US Senators and Representative on May 14

to ask for support of S.Res.75 and H.Res.109.

These resolutions urge the Iranian government to release the prisoners of conscience being held in despicable conditions in Iran’s prisons. Among them are seven Baha’i leaders who were arrested five years ago, falsely charged, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Their real “crime” is being a member of Iran’s largest religious minority, the Baha’i Faith. 

May 14, 2013 will mark the fifth anniversary of this imprisonment. The worldwide Baha’i community has launched an international campaign to seek the immediate release of these seven imprisoned Baha’is – and all other prisoners of conscience in Iran. We ask you to join in a collective effort in support of this call to action and urge the Iranian Government to live up to its international human rights obligations.

More information is available at http://www.bic.org/fiveyears