Source: www.theglobeandmail.com By Maziar Bahari Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Feb. 25 2015 Across the country, Canadian schoolchildren are celebrating Freedom to Read week, a public affirmation of freedom of expression through the process of education. The right to read, write and express one’s...
February 13, 2015 Source: www.radiozamaneh.com/205372 By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Human Rights activists report of intensified pressures on Baha’i citizens and incarceration of a large number of...
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Fariba Ashtari, a Baha’i resident of Yazd, started her two-year sentence on Saturday at the central prison of the city. She...
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Excerpts from Bahman Ahmadi Amouee’s report on Prison Conditions Fereshteh Ghazi Thursday, January 29, 2015 From the moment he was arrested together with his wife...
Source: Population of Combat against Educational Discrimination (P.C.E.D.) Translation by Iran Press Watch On the 16th of February 2015, security forces raided and searched Baha’i citizens’ residences in Tehran. After...
Source: sahamnews.org Translation by Iran Press Watch 19 February 2015 On Saturday 14 February, Kalim Jahandari, a Baha’i citizen of Bandar Abbas, was attacked and threatened by unknown armed assailants. According...
Source: hra-news.org/fa Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Ten Baha’is who were arrested last week and transferred to Dastgerd prison in Isfahan were released without a bail a few...
Source: http://digarban.com/node/21325 Translation by Iran Press Watch 17 February, 2015 Ali Khamenei, who does not consider the association of Muslims with Baha’is to be permitted, in his most recent speech claimed...
Source: www.rahesabz.net/story/90215/ Translation by Sen’s daily On February 16 and 17, security officers raided and searched the homes of Baha’is in Tehran and Isfahan, and arrested 17 Baha’is. In Tehran, the...
Source: www.huffingtonpost.ca By Irwin Cotler 02/10/2015 As P5+1 proceeds, it is important to appreciate that the prevention of a “nuclear breakout” capability is inextricably intertwined with the Iranian regime’s ongoing massive repression...
10 February, 2015 Source: hra-news.org/fa/students/a-15 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News – Branch One of the Judiciary Court has denied the request of a group of Baha’i youth to...
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-511 Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2ep Farah Baghi, a Baha’i from Yazd who has been sentenced to one year in prison and a one-year suspended sentence, has reported to...
Source: hra-news.org/fa/thought-and-expression/a-16 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News agency – Manoochehr Kholoosi, a Baha’i citizen who was charged on two counts of propaganda against the State as well as acting...
Source: Baha’i World News Service 8 February 2015 LOS ANGELES — Education is Not a Crime, a worldwide campaign drawing attention to the constructive response of the Baha’i community to...
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-496 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News – Navid Haghighi and Shahram Fallah, who have each been sentenced to prison terms of three years, reported to the Arak...
Source: iranwire.com/legal-blogs/9743/39/ By: Mehrangiz Kar December 30, 2014 The Friday prayer leader of Rafsanjan, Hojatoleslam Abbas Ramezani-Pour imitates Hitler, but we are silently ignoring it. He has asked, and in...
Source: www.farzanfaramarzi.com/2015/01/blog-post_31.html Translation by Iran Press Watch Unlike many Baha’i youth, who were prevented from continuing their education during 2011, Mr. Misagh Mohebpour, a Baha’i youth, was among the few Baha’is...
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