Source: sahamnews.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Published on Wednesday, 26 Nov 2014 During the last few months, economic and social pressure, along with widespread arrests and imprisonment of members of the Baha’i community, have increased.…
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Susan Tebyanian: I’ll Be Back in Jail in a Few Days
Source: en.iranwire.com/features/6184/ Wednesday 10 December 2014 Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour When you hear Susan Tebyanian speak, it is not the type of voice you associate with a woman that could be swept off to prison at a second’s notice.…
Fariba Kamalabadi’s Letter to Her Beautiful Daughter the Bride
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday 27 November, 2014 Mother prominently absent from daughter’s wedding Fariba Kamalabadi, who has been sentenced to twenty years of prison for being a member of the Baha’i Yaran…
Friday Prayer Leader in Rafsanjan Proposes Expelling All Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org/en HRANA News Agency – In a December 2 meeting with provincial officials, the Friday Prayer leader of Rafsanjan, Hojjat-al-Islam Abbas Ramezanipour said that there were a number of “sects” in the province, and because people…
Interrogation of a Bahai girl in Tabriz
Source: hra-news.org/fa Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2aQ On December 4, unidentified individuals claiming to represent the “Basij” voluntary militia forced a 19-year-old Bahai girl, Ilka Misaghi to get into a car, on a street in Tabriz,…
Former Prisoner of Iran-Iraq War Begins 3-Year Sentence
Source: hra-news.org/en Fardin Aghsani, a Baha’i from Urmia who was taken prisoner during the Iran-Iraq war, and held in Iraq for two and a half years, reported to the central prison in Urmia today to begin serving…
Soheila Aqdasi and Noushin Mithaqi Begin 6-Month Sentences
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-303 Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2aq On November 30th, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence arrested Noushin Misaghi and Soheila Aghdasi, Bahai women living in Urmia, in Iran’s Azerbaijan province, and took them to Urmia…
Adib Shoaee Begins a 6-Month Sentence in Mashhad
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-303 Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2au Adib Shoaee has reported to Vakilabad prison in Mashhad to begin serving his six-month sentence. He was arrested in his home on October 9, 2012, and released on bail…
Afif Naeimi, a Prisoner of Conscience, Taken Back to Prison in spite of Serious Health Condition
Source: sahamnews.org/1393/09/270866 Translation by Iran Press Watch November 22, 2014 Afif Naeimi (1), a prisoner of conscience at Rajai Shahr prison, was brought to Shariati Hospital in Tehran for treatment. Despite severe stomach bleeding and considerable…
Fariba Kamalabadi Denied Leave to Attend Daughter’s Wedding
Source: wp.me/pNMoJ-2am Fariba Kamalabadi one of the seven “Yaran” (National facilitators for the Bahai community) who are serving twenty-year prison sentences as prisoners of conscience, has been denied leave from prison to attend the wedding of…
Nasrin Sotoudeh Traveled to Semnan to Express Solidarity with Baha’is
Source: The Official Facebook Page of Nasrin Sotoudeh I had represented several Baha’is from the city of Semnan, and later on I also spent time in prison with some of them during my imprisonment. The story…
Rest in Peace: Iran Destroys Baha’i Cemetery
Source: www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/11/20/rest-in-peace-iran-destroys-bahai-cemetery/ by Elham Mahdavy November 20, 2014 “Foul, unclean, and rootless sect.” These are the words used by the commander of the government’s Revolutionary Guard in Shiraz, Iran to justify the destruction of much of a Baha’i cemetery in…
UN Sends Strong Signal to Iran on Human Rights
Source: Baha’i World News Service UNITED NATIONS — The UN Third Committee today sent a strong signal to Iran, exhorting its government to live up to its international human rights obligations. By a vote of…
Four Baha’i Shops Closed in Nashtarud, More Closures Expected
Source: hrana Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-29U Early in the morning of November 18, the local officials who supervise public places closed four Bahai-run shops in Nashtarud, a district centre on Iran’s Caspian coast. There…
Two Bahais Sentenced in Yazd for Facebook Postings
Source: hrana Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-29I Ms. Tannaz Mohammedi and Mr. Iraj Lohrasb, who were arrested in their homes in Yazd on June 29, 2014, have been sentenced by the revolutionary court in Yazd,…
Details of the One-Year Prison Sentence of Susan Tebyanian
Source: cshr.org.uk/human-rights-portal/news/2822 Translation by Iran Press Watch November 6th 2014 Centre for Supporters of Human Rights By Nargis Tavasolian Susan Tebyanian, a Baha’i from Semnan, in 2005 wrote a letter directly to then-President Khatami, toward…
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