Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Kianoosh Salmanzadeh, Jamileh Pakroo, Peyman Manavi, Payam Shabani, Parvan Manavi, Elham Salmanzadeh, Hooman Khoshnam, Neda Shabani and Soroush Agahi, nine Baha’i citizens living in Karaj,&hellip
Source: www.post-gazette.com AFRA AMID AND SANDRA LYNN HUTCHISON Barred from teaching or studying at state universities and subject to imprisonment and, in some cases, even execution for their beliefs, the Bahá’ís of Iran, a religious minority&hellip
Source: irannewswire.org A court in Iran sentenced eight Bahai citizens to a total of 11 years and 3 months of prison in an eastern province. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the eight men and women have been&hellip
Source: share.america.gov The United States has imposed sanctions on senior Iranian officials responsible for continuing the regime’s long-standing persecution of religious minorities. Iran’s constitution states that it protects the equal rights of “all people of Iran.”&hellip
Source: www.rferl.org Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on a hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison for more than three weeks to protest the risk that political prisoners in Iran face amid the&hellip
Source: Department of State Forty years ago this month the Iranian regime arrested nine members of the Baha’i National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, no one has heard from them since. Sadly we must conclude that these&hellip
Source: www.arabnews.com PARIS: Iranian authorities are not taking the measures needed to limit the spread of coronavirus in its overcrowded prisons, including institutions where foreigners such as Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert are held, a rights group charged&hellip
Source: www.youtube.com Arash Rod This is the story of persecution of three generations of Baha’is in Iran.
Source: iranwire.com Arash Azizi Pedram Roshan has not lived in Iran for about 20 years. Memories of his country of birth are “fading,” every day, he says. But he vividly remembers the best definition of physics&hellip
Source: articleeighteen.com “Religious minorities in the Islamic Republic have no restrictions; they enjoy full freedom and all economic and social rights, and those who say otherwise are false claimants of ‘human rights’ who distort the facts.”&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti He was born in the 1980s, in prison, because his mother was a Baha’i. He was denied a university education because he believed in a religion the rulers of Iran consider “forbidden”.&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – A Baha’i couple living in Villashahr, Isfahan, have been taken into custody. Mojdeh Eghterafi and her husband, Hooshmand Talebi were arrested on Sunday, August 23rd,&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Farid Zirgi Moghaddam, a Baha’i citizen living in Birjand, was sentenced to one additional year in prison by the Birjand Criminal Court in the secondary&hellip
Source: WDRforyou We are going abroad again, to talk about a religious group that is not allowed to exist, at least in its country of origin. In Iran, adherents of the Baha’i Faith are deprived of&hellip
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – An Iranian lawyer says a Baha’i woman he represents has become the latest member of the religious minority to begin serving a prison sentence for practicing her faith, deemed&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Liza Tebyanian, a Baha’i citizen living in Karaj, was arrested by security forces on the evening of Saturday, August 16, 2020, and taken to an&hellip
