Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/5y8K90 Translation by Iran Press Watch (Regarding the issues of educational and economic discrimination, and even the right of burial) Saturday June 14, 2014 I am a...
[www.internationalpolicydigest.org] A few weeks ago, a senior clergyman in Iran, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi Tehrani, did the unthinkable. He joined a gathering of human rights activists commemorating the sixth anniversary of the incarceration of...
[montrealgazette.com] BY KYLE MATTHEWS, SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE JUNE 10, 2014 MONTREAL — Iran is often in the news because of its suspected nuclear-weapons program. A nuclear Iran certainly...
[foreignpolicyi.org] By FPI Senior Policy Analyst Patrick Christy & Policy Director Robert Zarate While U.S. policymakers and lawmakers are focused on reversing Iran’s nuclear threat, Iran continues to pose other serious...
[globalvoicesonline.org] This guest post was written by Dr. Kamiar Alaei to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of the “Yaran”, seven leaders from the Baha’i, a persecuted minority in Iran. The Yaran – five men and two...
[khodnevis.org] 05 June 2014, by Majid Mohammadi After three decades of atrocities against Baha’is, Khamenei put an official government stamp on this oppression: “All believers should confront the trickeries...
[albawaba.com] by Irwin Cotler The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime – nuclear, terrorist,...
[newstatesman.com] by Nazila Ghanea Seven Bahá’ís – members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, persecuted by the government for decades – have now spent six years in prison for practising...
[jpost.com] A number of human rights abuses in Iran have continued unabated – or have even intensified – under Rouhani’s “moderate” presidency. The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third...
[news.bahai.org] MANAMA, Bahrain — Throughout the Arab world, a new discussion on how to live peacefully side by side with the followers of all religions has begun to take shape. This discourse...
[theguardian.com] The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His...
[hra-news.org] Susan Tebyanian, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested in her home on the evening of May 31st. Agents from the Ministry of Intelligence searched her home, seized a computer...
[hra-news.org] On June 2, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided a Bahai religious meeting in Mashhad, stopped the meeting, and searched the house where it was being held. They...
by Ramin Zibaee [rahesabz.net] Date: 21 May, 2014 We were both born in the same country, the same place and the same motherland. Then why should you have the right...
[shaheedoniran.org] 23/05/2014 Blog Political, social, or cultural circumstances produce challenging obstacles to implementing human rights commitments in every country. One such issue in Iran is that of the persecuted Baha’i...
[news.bahai.org.uk] 28 May 2014 By Esslemont The call came at an unprecedented commemorative meeting in Westminster Abbey, held on Tuesday 27 May, to mark the sixth anniversary of their imprisonment. The seven...
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