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Title	Iran: Whether followers of the International Raelian Movement have difficulties practising in Iran; government position on the movement and its followers
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Islamic Republic of Iran
Publication Date	30 September 2003
Citation / Document Symbol	IRN42026.E
Reference	2
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Whether followers of the International Raelian Movement have difficulties practising in Iran; government position on the movement and its followers, 30 September 2003, IRN42026.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/403dd1fac.html [accessed 4 June 2012]
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Iran: Whether followers of the International Raelian Movement have difficulties practising in Iran; government position on the movement and its followers

No information on the presence of International Raelian Movement activities in Iran, on the attitude of the Iranian authorities towards this organization and the treatment of its members by the authorities and Iranian society in general could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Dialog

IRB databases

Internet sites, including :

Amnesty International

Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Apologetics Index

European Country of Origin Information Network (ECOI.net)

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

International Religious Freedom Report for 2002. U.S. Department of State

Iran News

Religious News Blog

World News Connection (WNC)

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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