Source: en.iranwire.com By Amy Fehilly The NotACrime campaign launched a global street art project this year with nearly a dozen murals across New York City to raise awareness of Iran’s human rights crisis. Not A Crime, a campaign to promote education…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, the Office of Public Properties shut down the businesses of nine Baha’is in the Iranian cities of Ramsar and Sari on May 01, 2016. According to…
Source: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Iran Chapter – 2016 Annual Report Key Findings Religious freedom conditions continued to deteriorate over the past year, particularly for religious minorities, especially Baha’is, Christian converts, and…
Source: bazdasht.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Bazdasht, 27 April 2016 is the second anniversary of the imprisonment of Nasim Bagheri. Mrs Nasim Bagheri was born in Tehran in 1983. She was arrested on…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS – The 12-year discretionary sentence of Navid Khanjani, the human rights activist, in Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj by application of the “aggregation rules” has been reduced…
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt David “Rabi” Torres, one-half of the artist duo Cyrcle, painted this “Mad in Iran” broken ruler in Harlem. New York, US The Not A Crime campaign is back in New York to paint a…
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—29 April 2016—In observance of the eighth anniversary of the arrest and incarceration of seven Iranian Baha’i leaders, the Baha’i International Community is launching a global campaign calling for their immediate release. Taking…
Source: en.iranwire.com Thursday 28 April 2016 Message the Torturers and the Murderers Each of us have perhaps found ourselves in a situation where we have been bullied by somebody in a powerful position, and remained silent out…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency- On the morning of April 20, 2016, agents from the Chamber of Commerce illegally and concurrently shut down sixteen Baha’i-owned businesses in Qaemshahr and at least…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA: At the end of his 5-year prison sentence, Kamran Morteza’i Farid, a Baha’i, has been released from Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. According to HRANA (Human Rights Activists…
Source: www.timeshighereducation.com Discrimination and university expulsions continue to blight the lives of this religious minority, writes Shabnam Moinipour Source: Corbis “Kids, we are leaving Iran,” said my dad in a calm but firm manner. I was…
Source: irannewsupdate.com By INU Staff INU – On Thursday, the Human Rights Activists News Agency pointed out that the United States Department of State had issued its annual report on human rights throughout the world. As in years past,…
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the No Harassment or Imprisonment of Baha’is Campaign, Sarah Shakib, a student of applied statistics at the University of Kashan, was expelled from the University after what…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch The “BahaiNews” reported few minutes ago that fifteen Baha’i-owned businesses in Qaemshahr were sealed because they closed their stores on Baha’i holidays. According to this report, officials with the…
Source: www.kurdpa.net Translation by Iran Press Watch In recent years, pressure on adherents of Baha’i Faith has systematically increased. This pressure has been manifested in oppression, arrests, and deprivation of the followers of the Baha’i Faith…
Source: www.fidh.org 12/04/2016 OPEN LETTER On 12th April 2016, FIDH and its Iranian leagues LDDHI and DHRC sent this open letter to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,…
