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 homes of Sasan Yadegar, Ehsan…
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Human Rights in Iran: Marginalized and Sanitized
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 of human rights. Indeed, negotiations…
Branch One of the Judiciary Administrative Court Voted to Bar Baha’is from Higher Education
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 investigate their higher education applications…
Farah Baghi Begins Her Sentence in Yazd
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 prison in Yazd to begin…
Six Years Imprisonment for Baha’i Citizen
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 against national security, has been…
“Education Is Not a Crime” Gains Momentum
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 the Iranian government’s systematic denial…
Two Baha’i Residents Report to Prison to Serve Their Sentence
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 and Kerman prison systems to…
Prayer Leader of Rafsanjan and Our Unforgivable Silence
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 fact has incited the lovely…
Baha’i Misagh Mohebpour Expelled from University
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 who had been able to…
Three Bahais in Tonekabon Arrested: Trials Imminent
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-492 Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2e2 February 3, 2015 On February 3, three Bahai men living in the city of Tonekabon, in Iran’s Mazandaran province, were summoned to the court in Tonekabon, charged and arrested,…
Ministry of Information Pressures Muslim Citizens for Relations with Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-483 Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: January 31, 2015 HRANA News Agency – The Ministry of Information in the city of Rasht summons and threatens individuals who have relations with Baha’i citizens. According to…
Intelligence Officers Raid Bahai Homes in Shiraz
Source: www.farzanfaramarzi.com Translation by Sen’s daily On the morning of January 29, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided the home of Arman Atrian , a Bahai from Shiraz, and seized religious books and images,…
One Week After Forced Return from Hospital to Prison, Dr. Moghaddam Back in Hospital following a Heart Attack
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 29 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: On the morning of Wednesday, 28 January 2015, Dr. Foad Moghaddam, a physician and one of the administrators of the Baha’i online university,…
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu Added His Globe-Spanning Voice to the Education Is Not a Crime Campaign
Source: www.tutu.org.za/education-is-not-a-crime-campaign January 30, 2015 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African social rights activist, anti-apartheid hero, and human rights campaigner, who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, truly needs no introduction. And today His Grace…
Nobel Laureates Speak out for Baha’is Ahead of LA Event
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of five Nobel Prize laureates to endorse the Education is Not A Crime campaign Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid hero who received the Nobel Peace…
Imprisoned BIHE Educator with Heart Disease Denied Medical Treatment
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: Foad Moghaddam*, a physician and one of the managers of the online university of the Baha’is, despite heart problems and other health issues,…
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