Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Nika Pakzadan, Faraneh Daneshgari, Sanaz Ishaqi, Nakisa Hajipour and Naghmeh Zabihian, five Baha’i citizens living in Mashhad, were each sentenced by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court to one&hellip
Source: iran.bahai.de On 8 October 2020, the German Parliament (Bundestag) debated motions by the Greens entitled “Iran – Condemn human rights violations and consistently demand obligations under international law” (19/22561) and the FDP parliamentary group entitled&hellip
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Farid Zirgi Moghaddam began serving his five-year sentence in the central prison in the city of Birjand, in South Khorasan province in eastern Iran, on October 19, 2020—a prison sentence that was based solely&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The homes of Katayoun Shahriari, Peyman Rouhi and Iman Rashidi, Baha’i citizens living in Yazd, were searched by security forces on Tuesday, October 6th. Upon entering one&hellip
Source: www.bahai.us Resolutions are under consideration in the 116th U.S. Congress, as in past two-year congressional sessions, highlighting and condemning human rights abuses the Iranian government has carried out against the Baha’is in Iran. They are House&hellip
Source: www.voanews.com Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – Two Iranian Baha’i women have reported to a prison in eastern Iran to begin serving sentences for peacefully practicing their faith after authorities apparently ignored appeals to&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shahnaz Sabet, a Baha’i citizen living in Shiraz, was arrested this morning, Monday, October 13, and transferred to Adelabad Prison in Shiraz to serve her&hellip
Source: www.thenational.ae UN expresses ‘deep concerns’ at treatment of political prisoners in Iran Iran must release a Bahai “prisoner of conscience” who contracted the novel coronavirus, the community’s representative to the UN said on Thursday. Farhad&hellip
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – A group of Iranian Baha’is summoned to begin prison terms for practicing their faith were denied an appeal to delay their incarceration at a jail where they would risk&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ Farhad Fahandezh, a 61-year-old Baha’i prisoner, has been transferred to one of the solitary confinement cells at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj today, Thursday, October 1, as his&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Eight Baha’is have been summoned to Birjand Prison in South Khorasan to serve jail sentences amid a worsening coronavirus crisis across the country. The Bahai’s, who were summoned on Monday, September 28, have been given&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Mr. Farid Zirgi Moghaddam, a Baha’i citizen living in Birjand, has his conviction upheld and been sentenced to five years in prison by Branch&hellip
Source: www.thewhig.com The voice of Coquitlam’s Soheila Talebi-Eskandari breaks as she describes how her brother and his wife in Iran, followers of the Baha’i faith, were arrested last month and had many family possessions seized —&hellip
Source: www.macleans.ca Fifteen-year-old Nawal Talebi saw her parents imprisoned and her beloved musical instrument carted off as Tehran steps up its persecution of minorities Maybe it was the piano. Maybe that explains it. Maybe it was&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Maryam Laghaei and Mitra Forsatipour, Baha’i citizens, have been serving their sentences in the women’s ward of Evin Prison since early August this year. Ms.&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Kianoosh Salmanzadeh, Jamileh Pakroo, Peyman Manavi, Payam Shabani, Parvan Manavi, Elham Salmanzadeh, Hooman Khoshnam, Neda Shabani and Soroush Agahi, nine Baha’i citizens living in Karaj,&hellip
