A/HRC/28/70 national mathematics exam, was reportedly barred from registering at a public university. The Special Rapporteur invites Baha’i students to submit complaints of violations of their rights to the High Council for Human Rights. 51. Incitement against Baha’is appeared to continue in 2014. On 15 December 2014, Ayatollah Bojnourdi, a high-ranking cleric and a former member of the Supreme Judicial Council, stated: “We never say that Baha’is have the right to education; Baha’is don’t even have citizenship rights.”46 After negative reactions, he later clarified that Baha’is who cooperated with Israel or advocated against Islam were not entitled to citizenship rights. 47 They were able to exercise their human rights but they could not enjoy privileges such as going to university in the Islamic Republic of Iran.48 2. Christians 52. As at 1 January 2015, at least 92 Christians remained in detention in the country, allegedly owing to their Christian faith and activities.49 In 2014 alone, 69 Christian converts were reportedly arrested and detained for at least 24 hours across the Islamic Republic of Iran. Authorities reportedly continued to target the leaders of house churches, generally those from Muslim backgrounds. Christian converts also allegedly continue to face restrictions in observing their religious holidays. 53. On 25 December 2014, Iranian authorities reportedly raided a house church in the town of Rudehen and arrested nine individuals who had gathered to celebrate Christmas. 50 Authorities also arrested Pastor Victor Bet Tamarz, the former head of the Shahrara Assyrian Pentecostal Church in Tehran, along with two other Christian converts on 26 December while the Pastor was performing a Christmas service. Pastor Tamarz has reportedly been under pressure for performing Persian-language services since 2009.51 On 19 October 2014, the Revolutionary Court of Alborz Province sentenced Pastors Behnam Irani, Reza Rabbani and Abdolreza (Mathias) Haghnejad to six years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” and “forming groups to overthrow the Government”. Pastor Irani and Pastor Rabbani are currently serving their sentences. The Government clarified that the Alborz Province Court of Appeal had acquitted Mr. Haghnejad. VI. Economic, social and cultural rights A. Economic rights 1. Right to organize and bargain collectively 54. While it is party to five of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Government has not yet signed the two ILO Conventions that deal specifically with the right to free expression and association: the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98). The Government maintains that not acceding to those treaties has no impact on rights or protections. 46 47 48 49 50 51 14 International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, 18 December 2014, http://persian.iranhumanrights.org/1393/09/bojnoordi-bahais/. Tasnim News Agency, 18 December 2014, www.tasnimnews.com/Home/Single/592485. Ibid. Information submitted to the Special Rapporteur by the non-governmental organization Article 18. The Voice of Iranian Christians, http://vocir.org. Article 18, http://articleeighteen.com/fa/breaking-news/victor-bet-tamraz-arrested/.