Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—23 March 2020—Despite a significant humanitarian crisis and mounting health concerns in Yemen, an appeals court in Sana’a yesterday upheld a religiously-motivated death sentence against Hamed bin Haydara, a Baha’i imprisoned since 2013. After&hellip
Source: www.en-hrana.org On March 14, 2020, 30 Baha’i citizens were summoned to Branch 10 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz. Their summon was related to a case that was opened back in 2016 by the Intelligence&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kian Sabeti Based on a report received by Iranwire, the authorities at Semnan Prison have denied a furlough to Behnam Eskandarian, a Baha’i prisoners at Semnan. Following the extensive&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On March 14, at least 26 Baha’i citizens in Shiraz were summoned to Branch 10 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court, to answer charges, and are required to report to the Court within&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a news release from IranWire, on Thursday, 23 January, a Baha’i couple living in Qaemshahr, Saman Shirvani and Faraneh Mansouri, who had been visiting friends,&hellip
Source: www.adl.org New York, NY, March 12, 2020. ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities today endorsed H. Res. 823 condemning the Government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of its Baha’i minority and the regime’s continued violation of the International Covenants&hellip
Source: Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Executive Summary The closure of Iranian universities in the spring of 1980, and the subsequent expulsion of hundreds of professors and students who were deemed to be at odds with&hellip
Source: Baha’i Community of Canada Office of Public Affairs In Question Period on 26 February 2020, MP Kelly Block asks the Government of Canada to call upon the Iranian government to stop its exclusion of Baha’is&hellip
Source: religionnews.com Nabil Elias (RNS) — When a major storm knocked out our electricity for a few hours recently in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I live with my family, I posted a brief complaint on Facebook.&hellip
Source: www.opendemocracy.net Iran celebrates the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution by continuing its ongoing war against religious minorities. Haidar Khezri On Monday, 3 February the Islamic Republic upheld death sentences for seven Sunni Kurds after some ten&hellip
Source: www.bahai.us For many years, local delegations of Baha’is have developed relationships with members of Congress in collaboration with the U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs (OPA). These relationships serve not only to build national-level support&hellip
Source: www.auswaertiges-amt.de Commenting on current reports about a change to the Iranian ID application form, which now only allows for applications from members of religious communities recognised in Iran, Bärbel Kofler, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights&hellip
Source: www.dw.com Baha’is are unable to legally register with the Iranian state because an “other religions” option has been removed from the identity card application. Their faith forbids them to lie about their affiliation. The removal&hellip
Source: humanrightsinir.org Human Rights in Iran – on Tuesday 18 Feb 2020, Amnesty international, published a report analyzing human rights abuses in Iran. In this report, in detail, it examines the status of followers of other religions,&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA News Agency, the Human Rights Activists news organization of Iran, in Sari the shops of 19 Baha’is citizens have been sealed for more than three years&hellip
Source: en.radiozamaneh.com According to several reports on social media, the National Identification Card in Iran is now only issued for the followers of one of the four recognized religions in Iran. The recent change in&hellip
