Source: didgahenow.com Ali Kalai, human rights activist Every human being should be revered, and so should his property, life, honor and reputation. This rule is the foundation of people’s lives in today’s world, people of different…
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At the UN, Religious Minorities Describe Day-To-Day Persecution in Iran
Source: www.bic.org UNITED NATIONS—4 November 2015—Growing up in Iran, Naeim Tavakkoli recalls being forced to sit on the floor in school to dry out on rainy days so that the “unclean” water he shed as a…
Susan Tebyaniyan Released From Prison at the End of Her Sentence
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan who has been serving a one-year sentence in Isfahan prison, was released from prison on November 2. She was charged with propaganda against the…
BIHE Instructor Released From Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Amanollah Mostaghim one of the imprisoned staff members of the Bahai Open University (BIHE) in Iran, was released from Raja’i Shahr prison today. He was sentenced to five years in…
“Their Progress and Development Are Blocked” — The economic oppression of Iran’s Baha’is
Source: www.bic.org A special report of the Baha’i International Community (October 2015) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the government of Iran has engaged in a broad, systematic persecution of its Baha’i minority. One lesser known aspect…
October 2015 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: shaheedoniran.org 27/10/2015 Summary The Secretary-General has the honor to transmit the fifth report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human…
Constructive Resilience: The Baha’i Way to Respond to Human Rights Abuses
Source: www.amnesty.org.uk In Iran, followers of the Baha’i faith face discrimination, arrest and arbitrary detention, some have even been executed because of their religion. Although founded in 1863, the country’s constitution does not recognise and protect…
BIHE Instructor Transferred to Evin Prison to Serve Four Year Sentence
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by No to Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’i Compatriots: Azita Rafizadeh, who had previously been sentenced to four years imprisonment for teaching at the online Baha’i…
Confiscation of Baha’i’s Farmland in Semnan
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Fifty Hectares (125 acres) of farmland belonging to a 65 year old Baha’i in Semnan have been confiscated. The confiscation was ordered by individuals from the Agriculture…
Prison Poem: “Beyond Imagination”
Source: saeedrezaee.com By Saeid Rezaie Translation by Nasser Beyond imagination I stay in this cage For you to fly And be the resonating echo of my voice In a universe where no sound is ever heard * And this…
Ten Year Old Baha’i, Not Allowed to Attend School
Thursday 10/08/2015 Source: www.roozonline.com by Fereshteh Ghazi Translation by Iran Press Watch Aref Hekmat-Shoar has been expelled from school because he is a Bahai. He is ten years old. Gahvareh Danesh School is not the only…
Education is a Human Right
Source: Persian Media Production
Afif Naeimi Returned to Hospital
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily Afif Naeimi, a Bahai prisoner of conscience held in Raja’i Shahr prison, and one of the seven Yaran (national facilitators for the Bahai community in Iran), was taken to hospital…
Three More Bahais Tried in Gorgan
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily On October 12 a court in Gorgan, in Iran’s Golestan Province, held the sixth in a series of trials of the Baha’is who were arrested in the Province in October,…
Tahereh Reza’i Arrested and Sent to Yazd Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 19 October 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BaháiNews”, Tahereh Reza’i, a Baha’i resident of Isfahan, was arrested in front of her home on 19 October and transferred later that day to…
A Letter From the Heart of Mozhdeh Fahandezh to Her Husband in Prison
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch (…. now is the 147th time……) My dear Farhad, I am a traveller…., a wayfarer who, with loads of love, is setting forth every week from Gorgan to Karaj;…