E/CN.4/1993/62 page 41 "According to the information received, Mr. Bahman Samandari, aged 52, an Iranian citizen belonging to the Baha’i faith, was executed in Evin prison in Tehran without charge, trial or sentencing on 18 March 1992, for refusing to renounce his religion. He is said to have been secretely buried in the ’section for infidels’ of the Beheshte Zahra general cemetery in Teheran on 20 March but the exact location of his grave has not been disclosed to his family, which was informed of his execution 18 days after it had taken place and has not received an explanation concerning the discrepancy between the date indicated on his testament, 18 March 1992, and that of 17 March which figures on the extract from the register of the deceased. Mr. Samandari, an economist and former representative of Swissair in Tehran, is said to have been summoned to the Islamic Revolutionary Public Ministry on 17 March 1992, allegedly to receive a document. His family was reportedly informed of his arrest by telephone at 2 p.m. the same day. No reasons for the arrest were given. Mr. Samandari had been arrested for the first time on 21 October 1987 for his membership in the Baha’i religious community and was detained at Evin prison until December 1987. He was prevented from working for several years before finding a job in a textile factory six months prior to his execution. Mr. Samandari’s wife reportedly went to the Islamic Revolutionary Public Ministry to inquire about her husband on 18 March and was directed to Evin prison where she was told on 24 March that her husband’s name was not in the prison register. She returned to the Ministry on 5 April with a male person who was allegedly admitted to the Penalty Enforcement Office alone and was handed Mr. Samandari’s will, dated 18 March 1992, 3 p.m., in which he is reported to have explained that it was impossible for him to recant his faith, as he was asked to do in exchange for his freedom. On 7 April, Mrs. Samandari inquired at the Ministry about the charges on which her husband had been executed but was reportedly given no reply. Religious animosity against members of the Baha’i faith is said to have also resulted in the killing, on 17 June 1992, of Mr. Ruhu’llah Ghedami from Muzaffariyyih village. He was reportedly murdered by two members of the governmental ’Disciplinary Forces’, who are said to have acted on their own and have reportedly been arrested and imprisoned by the authorities. According to additional information received, systematic discrimination of members of the Baha’i community on the basis of their religious beliefs has continued. As members of an unrecognized religion, Baha’is are said to not enjoy protection under the Constitution and allegedly continue to be referred to as members of the ’wayward Baha’i sect’, considered officially as ’unprotected infidels’. Members of the Baha’i faith reportedly continue to be denied the right to freely express their religious beliefs, to elect and maintain their administrative institutions, the right of assembly as well as of their inheritance rights. Baha’is are reportedly not able to leave the country freely as it is virtually impossible for them to obtain passports. They allegedly continue to be denied access to institutions of higher education and encounter difficulties in distributing Baha’i books among themselves. The property rights of the Baha’i community are reportedly unprotected and they remain officially barred from opening their own businesses. Members of the Baha’i community were reportedly harassed in the