; (5) to address the poor conditions of prisons ; (6) to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of systemic discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls ; (7) to cease the increased harassment, intimidation, persecution, arbitrary arrest and detention of, and incitement to hatred that leads to violence against, persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities, including Christians (particularly converts from Islam), Gonabadi Dervishes, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Yarsanis, Zoroastrians, and, in particular, Baha’is, who have been subjected to a sudden increase in persecution, who have faced increasing restrictions and systemic persecution by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran on account of their faith and have been reportedly subjected to mass arrests and lengthy prison sentences, as well as the arrest of prominent members and increased confiscation and destruction of property ; and (8) to release all religious practitioners imprisoned for their membership in or activities on behalf of a minority religious group, to cease the desecration of cemeteries and to ensure that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief ; Whereas, in the 2022 Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom issued in April 2022, it is reported that— (1) the Government of Iran arrested scores of Baha’is across Iran , many of whom were held incommunicado or taken to undisclosed locations ; (2) Iranian universities continued to deny education to Baha’is on account of their faith ; (3) government agents closed six Baha’i businesses ; (4) government officials demolished the homes of three Baha’is without warning ; and (5) the Government of Iran announced the auction of thirteen Baha’i farms