Source: www.amnesty.org IRAN 2016/2017 The authorities heavily suppressed the rights to freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly and religious belief, arresting and imprisoning peaceful critics and others after grossly unfair trials before Revolutionary Courts. Torture and…
Source: Manoto TV Translation by Iran Press Watch Manoto TV Journalist: This is a store belonging to a Baha’i citizen in Sari. His store has been sealed because he closed it on his religious holiday,…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Date: 2 February 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch Two Baha’is residing in Zahedan have been arrested because of their religious beliefs. Based on a report on the Human Rights in Iran website, Sholeh…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports from BahaiNews yesterday morning, on 21 December 2016 security officers from the Office of Intelligence arrested Amrollah Khaleghian and his wife, Fariba Rohani, and searched…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report from the Human Rights in Iran website, quoting BahaiNews1, on Dec 20 2016, security forces in Qazvin raided the home of a Baha’i resident of…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Homa Sabet Tavangar1 In anticipation of the Martin Luther King holiday, I wanted to show my daughters the St. Francis College Bulletin of 1976 that featured a photo of my mother studying with her…
Source: www.jewishpolicycenter.org Kenneth R. Timmerman • Winter 2017 When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,” terrorists and turbans, evil-looking beards and missiles rising from bright, arid canyons. If they think further, some…
Source: www.internationalaffairs.org.au By Michael Day In the lead-up to Christmas, the United Nations General Assembly passed its 29th resolution since 1985 drawing attention to human rights violations in Iran. Among the groups persecuted, followers of the…
Source: www.uscirf.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 23, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The UN General Assembly on December 19 passed its 14th consecutive resolution which included a condemnation of the Iranian government’s actions against the Baha’i…
Source: www.news.bahai.org NEW YORK — Today the international community firmly denounced a wide range of human rights violations in Iran. By a vote of 85 to 35 with 63 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly approved…
Source: Bahainews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch The business place of Nosratollah Takapooy in the city of Bijar in Kurdestan province has been sealed by agents of the Office of Public Places. He has 56 years…
Source: Bahainews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Bahainews website, after 4 years the shops of Baha’is in Hamadan remain closed by Iranian officials. According to a Bahainews report, on November 4, 2012,…
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA News Agency – Fariba Kamal Abadi, Jamal-Aldin Khanjani, Mahvash Sabet, Afif Naimi, Saeed Rezai, Behrouz Tavakoli and Vahid Tizfah, are the seven administrative members of the Baha’i Community known as “Yaran-e Iran”, who along…
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – After more than three weeks since the closure of 93 Baha’i-owned shops in Mazandaran province, in addition to the closure of 9 Baha’i-owned in Tonekabon over several…
Source: www.bbc.com By Mohammad Heydari Translation by Iran Press Watch The “Baha’i problem” in Iran is one of the central predicaments for us. Baha’is are “the true Other ” to majority Shi’ites; how we deal with…
