)[1][2] In August 1947 Marie Claudet, former member of the Baha'i Assembly of Guayaquil (Ecuador) was reported in May to be en route to French Morocco.
For Spanish Morocco in October 1953 they were: Fawzi Zaynu'l-'Abidin & family, Luella McKay, John & Earleta Fleming, and Alyce Janssen.
[25] A regional National Spiritual Assembly of North West Africa was organized[8] in 1962-3 including the merging countries of French, Spanish Morocco and the Moroccan International Zone centered on Tangiers.
The assemblies were: Casablanca, Ceuta, Fez, Kenitra, Larache, Marrakesh, Meknès, Nador, Rabat, Sala, Tetuan and Zaouiat Cheikh.
[27] On December 17, 1962, news is released among the Baháʼís and efforts are aimed at asking for the applicability of the UN charter which condemns religious intolerance.
[4] On January 31 Roger Nash Baldwin, then Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man, appeared before a UN sub-commission of Preventing Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and states that, as far as they knew, the Baháʼí prisoners in Morocco are the only example in recent history where members of a religions have been condemned to death solely for holding and expressing religious views regarded as heretical.
However, on April 2 he makes a public statement that if the Supreme Court confirms the penalty of death that he would grant them a royal pardon.
[4] Coverage in newspapers of the day included Wisconsin,[30] Winnipeg and[31] Lethbridge, Canada[32] and Elyria Ohio[33] as well as the New York Times.
[34][better source needed] The New Republic January 25, 1964, issue had an article by Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and member of the International League for the Rights of Man (an organization accredited by the UN which aims to spread civil liberties around the world).
[35] Baldwin mentions how the League, by applying public pressure on the King of Morocco helped save the lives of the Baháʼí prisoners who had been sentenced to death.
Baldwin was quoted discussing the League, "All this adds up to the very tiny beginnings of a system by which the UN itself would examine and process complaints and ultimately help set up a world court of human rights."
Morocco, Old Land, New Nation published in 1966[11] discusses[36] briefly the exploitation of the religion by a Moroccan political party, in an effort to dramatize a claim "to be the stanch defender of faith and country," and the resultant persecution and imprisonment of several young Baha'i men from Nador.
Concerning the Faith, the authors write: "The attractiveness of the movement stemmed from its belief in world brotherhood (a factor in its recent appeal in certain parts of Africa), the dedication of its organizers, and the vitality of its discussions, which contrasted sharply with the small concern in Morocco with the possibility of modernizing Islam."
Over twenty participants were gathered on a farm situated in a suburb of Meknes, belonging to one of the Persian pioneers, Hossein Rowhani Ardakani.
[37] Baháʼís from Morocco, Tunisia, Belgium, England, Monte Carlo and the Netherlands attended a school in Périgueux, France and shared news of the progress of the religion in their countries.
[39] The Rabat Baháʼí community hosted the May 1–2, 1965 convention for the regional national assembly of North West Africa.
He was the small boy who, while his father was in prison in Morocco, chanted a prayer before the audience at the first Baháʼí World Congress.
[45] In before fall 1967 Hands of the Cause William Sears and Shuʼáʼu'lláh ʻAláʼí met with the Baháʼís in Casablanca and the regional national assembly for a week.
[50] The 1970 French summer school, held at Annecy/Sevrier from August 30 to September 8, had attendees of 150 persons from Germany, England, Belgium, Denmark, India, Luxembourg, Dominica, Morocco, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia.
The regional National Assembly of Northern Africa included Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Spanish Sahara.
[56] At the discussions on the draft of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief at the Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Affairs Committee of the United Nations General Assembly there were several mentions of situation of the Baháʼís in Iran—the Moroccan delegate made reference to "religious fanaticism" in a statement which also provoked a reply from Iran.
[59] In June 1984 a Baháʼí in Tetuan is arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for violating the ban on meetings.
[4] A response to these developments was to seek diplomatic redress emphasizing the non-partisan and obedience to government principles of the religion.