three were given death sentences and several others were sentenced to years of prison terms at hard labour.[138] There were months of diplomatic efforts; US Senator Kenneth B. Keating stated in the U.S. Senate on February 18, 1963, "How far religious freedom under the Moroccan Constitution really applies, will be revealed in the coming weeks when the appeal before the Supreme Court [of Morocco] is heard."[139] On March 31, 1963 during a visit to the United States and the United Nations, King Hasan of Morocco was interviewed on television and addressed the audience saying that even though the Bahá'í Faith was "against good order and also morals", he would pardon the death sentences.[139] Persecution of Baha'is occurred again in 1984, and their response was to seek diplomatic redressin school or may not qualify for scholarships and individuals without birth certificates cannot qualify for government jobs.[130] thus Bahá'ís cannot register their marriages or their children's births.[136] the national registration system continues to restrict the religious freedom of persons who do not belong to the five officially recognized faiths;[129]
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Indonesia

In Azerbaijan, a region that has some of the earliest connections with the Bahá'í Faith, there have been several news stories covering severe social, bureaucratic and legal limits on religious communities, including the Bahá'ís, since the fall of the Soviet Union. Bahá'ís are trying to recover properties that were confiscated in the 1930s.[133] In 2004, Tavachur Aliev, a Bahá'í, claimed to have been arrested for mentioning his religion and was released when he promised not to mention his religion