An appeal in court Queue According to an international Bahai organization monitoring the case, the leader of the country’s younger Bahai community has overturned the sentence of Remi Rohani.
71 -year -old Rohani was sentenced to five years in jail in August after being convicted on allegations related to social media posts. Organization – Bahai International Community – said on Wednesday that it was ready for his release.
“We are relieved that the Katri Nyaya System has reversed the misunderstanding of the court hearing earlier,” said BIC representative Saba Hadad. United Nations In Geneva. ,Justice Has been strong. ,
Rowhani – former head of Qatar’s Chamber of Commerce – was convicted on allegations related to X and Instagram accounts of the Bahai community, including posts about Katri holidays and Bahai writing.
Katri prosecutors alleged that these accounts “promoted the ideas and beliefs of a religious sect that raise doubts about the foundation and teachings of Islamic religion.”
In August, Hadad depicted the verdict as an attack on the Bahai community of Qatar with “serious violations of religion or freedom of religion or faith.
A group of human rights experts of the United Nations convicted this two weeks after Rovni’s arrest and detention expressed two weeks after expressing “serious concern”, which they “portrayed as part of the widespread and disturbing patterns of uneven treatment of the uneven treatment of the Bahi minority in Qatar.”
He said, “The existence of Bahai in Qatar and his spontaneous presence on X cannot be criminalized under international law,” he said.
Bahai Vishwas – A small but global religion with an interfeth creda – fits comfortably in the religious spectrum of most countries, but in many Middle East countries, Bahai followers have to face suppression that is criticizing rights groups.
Abuse is most clear IranWhich is accused of harassing faith and widely accused of harassing the flowing followers, saying human rights advocates. They also report systemic discrimination in Yemen, Qatar and Egypt.
Hadad hoped that Rohani’s punishment was overturned to indicate a change to religious tolerance.
He said, “The Arab region has seen progress in co -existence and diversity in the last several years, and the Bahai community in Qatar and the entire region is devoted to serving their countries,” he said. “We hope that Remy Rohani’s freedom indicates such progress in Qatar in the future.”
Bahai Vishwas was founded by Bahaulah in the 1860s, a Persian Raees considered a prophet by his followers. Muslims consider the Prophet Muhammad The highest and final prophet.
From the early days of Bahai faith, Shia Muslim clerics have condemned their followers as Dharmatyagi. The repression continued after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, when several Bahai followers were killed or disappeared.
The largest number of believers worldwide have faith in India with the largest number of believers.
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