Source: iranwire.com Maryam Safajoo, an artist, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986, uses her work to depict the many forms of persecution faced by the Baha’i religious minority in Iran. Safajoo, a Baha’i herself, now lives in Champaign,&hellip
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How “Reformists” Tried to Placate the UN Over Discrimination Against Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have been banned from entering higher education for forty years, since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. This mass state-sanctioned infringement of human rights can be separated into&hellip
ADL Task Force on Middle Eastern Minorities Condemns the Raids in Iran Targeting Baha’i Community
Source: www.adl.org New York, NY, November 24, 2020 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today condemned the recent raids targeting Iran’s vulnerable Baha’i community. According to reports, on November 22, homes of tens&hellip
Baha’is Barred From Higher Education In Iran
Source: en.radiofarda.com “Deficient filing” is a familiar term to Baha’i youth in Iran who want to enter university and carry on their education like any other citizen enjoying one of their most fundamental rights. Iranian Baha’is&hellip
Where can I complain about this suffering?
Source: www.kaleme.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Abstract: It may be said that “house-raid” does not demand all these agitations! This could only be said by those whose homes have never been raided; otherwise, those&hellip
Sources: Iran Raids Homes of 50 Baha’i Families
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – Iran is intensifying its campaign of harassment against its Baha’i religious minority, carrying out what appears to be one of the largest coordinated raids of Baha’i homes&hellip
Baha’i Homes Reportedly Raided In Cities Across Iran
Source: en.radiofarda.com Activists say Iranian security forces have raided the homes of dozens of Baha’is in several cities across the country, confiscating their personal belongings. The reason for the raids on November 22 was not immediately&hellip
Breaking: An All-Out Assault on Baha’is Across Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On the morning of Sunday, November 22, in simultaneous operations in various cities across Iran, security agents ransacked the homes of tens of Baha’is. Their personal effects, mobile phones, computers, laptops and&hellip
Treasury Targets Vast Supreme Leader Patronage Network and Iran’s Minister of Intelligence
Source: home.treasury.gov WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against a key patronage network for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation (Bonyad Mostazafan,&hellip
Baha’i University Candidates Summoned for Interrogation
Source: iranwire.com Young Baha’i would-be students who passed this year’s national university entrance exams in Iran have been hauled in by education officials for questioning. On Wednesday, November 11, a number of Baha’i candidates were summoned&hellip
UN Passes Resolution Condemning Human Rights Violations in Iran
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—18 November 2020—In spite of the ongoing pandemic, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly considered and approved a resolution today calling on Iran to observe human rights for all its citizens,&hellip
This Year Too, Baha’i Citizens Are Not Allowed to Enter University; Systematic Discrimination in the Homeland
Source: www.zeitoons.com Shiva Nazarahari Translation by Iran Press Watch This year’s controversial nationwide university entrance exams, in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak and after several delays, was carried out in the middle of the summer.&hellip
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Meets Baha’is to Express Concern Over Human Rights Violations in Iran and Yemen
Source: www.bic.org BRUSSELS—28 October 2020—Ann Linde, Foreign Minister of Sweden, met virtually last week with representatives of the Baha’i community of Sweden and the Baha’i International Community’s Brussels and Geneva offices to discuss the persecution of Baha’is in&hellip
Security Forces Confiscate Baha’i Lands by Citing Clerics
Source: www.independentpersian.com Translation by Iran Press Watch By Amir Soltanzadeh Writer and Journalist Seizure of land with Title Deeds in Roshankooh village under excuse of Protecting Natural Resources Recently, the Natural Resources Department of Mazandaran Province&hellip
UN Investigator: Rights of Minorities to Worship Undermined
Source: apnews.com UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special investigator on religious freedom urged countries to repeal laws undermining the right of minorities to worship and hold beliefs, pointing as examples to China’s detention of Uighurs,&hellip
Baha’is and Women in Iran Victims of Discrimination in Seeking Higher Education
Source: www.independentpersian.com By: Amir Soltanzadeh, Persian independent journalist Translation by Iran Press Watch Discriminatory admission is still present in the process of entering universities in Iran. Even though the capacity of universities to admit women has&hellip
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