Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale expressed his deep concern at news that 24 Yemenis of the Baha\u2019i faith, including a child, continue to face serious charges for nothing more than their expressing beliefs and for conducting peaceful activities. Some of the charges may result in the death penalty.<\/p>\n
\u201cA recent court date was an opportunity for justice to prevail \u2013 but Houthi authorities seem content to threaten peaceful people with execution just for expressing their religious beliefs.\u00a0 The world will be closely watching the next hearing, currently scheduled for mid-November.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis mass trial is another disturbing\u00a0sign of persecution of Yemenis of the Baha\u2019i faith in Houthi-controlled Yemen.\u00a0 I urge the Houthi authorities to immediately drop these bogus charges and release those who are detained.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale expressed his deep concern at news that 24 Yemenis of the Baha\u2019i faith, including a child, continue to face serious charges for nothing more than their expressing beliefs and for conducting peaceful activities. Some of the charges may result in the death penalty. \u201cA recent court date was an … Continue reading “Greens express deep concern over Baha'i persecution in Yemen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}