(RAHANA – 24 Oct 2010) Two Mashhad Baha’i Citizens Jalayer Vahdat and Sima Eshraghi have been transferred to the Vakilabad Prison in order to serve their 5 year prison sentence.
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Scotland’s Baha’i community calls for support
Billy Briggs 26 Oct 2010 “It was not long after Ayatollah Khomeini came to power that the real trouble started. My husband was arrested, tortured and killed and then they arrested me too,” Mehrangiz Moayyad…
Spain: City Councils of Bailén and Guarromán show support to the Baha’i community of Iran
The City Councils of Bailén and Guarromán – in the Spanish province of Jaén – have unanimously approved separate institutional declarations stating concern over the deprivation of rights and systematic persecution faced by the members…
Religious minorities in Iran are victims of persecution and face discrimination
(FIDH – 21 Oct 2010) Damning report on an ignored issue: Discrimination against ethnics and religious minorities in Iran. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human…
In The Mideast, An Online Music Site With A Message
(NPR – 12 Oct. 2010) “Iranian rapper named Foad Manshady, of the Baha’i faith, who takes risks to relate the problems of being a religious minority in Iran. The music can be danced to, she…
Two Baha’i Citizens Summoned and Threatened
(RAHANA – 21 Oct 2010) : Two Mashhad Baha’i residents who had received prison sentences, have been threatened and summoned in order to begin serving their sentence.
Two Baha’i Citizens Detained in Tonekabon
(RAHANA – 19 Oct 2010) On Saturday, October 16th, two Baha’i citizens were detained in the city of Tonekabon.
UN Secretary General voices concern over human rights abuses in Iran
(BWNS, 18 Oct 2010) UNITED NATIONS — The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has once again expressed strong concern over Iran’s ongoing human rights violations, including its persecution of Iranian Baha’is. In a…
Understanding the new charges filed against Rozita Vaseghi and Nahid Ghadiri
Harana News Agency, Mashhad, Iran : Two Baha’i prisoners incarcerated in the Vakil-Abad prison in the city of Mashhad [Province of Khurasan, Iran] , Rozita Vaseghi and Nahid Ghadiri, who are serving five year sentences…
Siamak Iqani sentenced to three years imprisonment
HRA News- The appeals court of the province of Semnan upheld the conviction of Siamak Iqani, a Baha’i in this province. According to HRA reporters, the provincial appeals court of Semnan upheld the ruling of…
Mahin Khanjani, Baha'i in Tehran, released from custody
Saturday 17 Mehr 1389 [9 Oct 2010] at 9:19AM Mahen Khanjani, a Baha’i in Tehran who had been arrested by security forces, was released from custody at noon today.
Legal questions over Iran Bahá'í trial
The Guardian, Saturday 9 October 2010 On 8 August it was reported that seven Iranian citizens – Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm and Mahvash Sabet – had been sentenced…
UK heads of religion call for release of Iran's seven Baha'i leaders
(BWNS — 7 Oct 2010) LONDON — Britain’s most prominent heads of religion have called for the release of the seven Baha’i leaders serving prison sentences in Iran. A statement by the United Kingdom’s religious…
Final defence from two Mashhad Baha'is
(HRANA, 6 October 2010) Noora Nabilzadeh and Behman Yazdani ( نورا نبیل زاده و بهمن یزدانی), two Bahai residents of Mashhad in North-East Iran, were summoned to court on 6 October for the final defense…
Baha’i Citizen Sentenced to One Year in Prison and One Year of Exile and Barred from Employment
(RAHANA ) 6 , October , 2010 Baha’i citizen Hossein Shaygan has been sentenced to one year in prison and one year of exile and has been barred from employment.
Expulsion of Ruhollah Qudrat, Baha'i medical student in Rafsanjan, due to a letter from Ministry of Health and Medical Education
According to the news received by Population to Combat Educational Discrimination [see http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5889], Ruhollah Qudrat, a Baha’i medical student at Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences has been deprived of his right to continue his education,…