Former Indian Deputy Prime Minister L.K.Advani has called upon Iran to uphold justice and treat its minorities with respect. “I appeal to Iran and join the UN and the rest of the international community to treat the Baha'is with respect,” he said, “and provide justice to the imprisoned seven leaders of the Baha'i community.” The former UN special Rapporteur on Housing Rights, Miloon Kothari, has also raised the issue of Iran’s violation of minority rights. “There is a contradiction of the unjust treatment of Baha'is and the minorities in Iran with the state not according them the same rights and means of redress that it is championing around the world,” said Mr. Kothari. Dr. Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development and former Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, endorsing the Open letter of the Baha'i International Community to the Head of the Judiciary in Iran, emphasizes that “this mistreatment [of the Baha'is] also epitomizes the injustices being wrought against scores upon scores of their fellow citizens who are condemned to suffer merely because they yearn to be liberated from the prejudice and religious fanaticism that have so undermined the advancement and ravaged the well-being of their society.”