Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On Thursday, October 12, 2017, five Baha’i citizens underwent trial at Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Moghiseh. In the presence&hellip
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Baha’i Poet Jailed in Iran Wins Free Speech PEN Pinter Prize
Source: mobile.nytimes.com By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OCTOBER 10, 2017 LONDON — A Baha’i poet who was jailed for almost a decade in Iran has won a writing award celebrating free speech. Mahvash Sabet shares the PEN&hellip
Iranian Baha’i Singer Facing Prison Time After European Concert Tour
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org After being repeatedly interrogated while spending a month in solitary confinement, Iranian singer Behnam Rohani-Fard was released on 100 million tomans bail (approximately $30,156 USD) from Tehran’s Evin Prison on October 3, 2017. Rohani-Fard, a member of&hellip
Unprecedented UN Resolution Demands End to Harassment of Baha’is in Yemen
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—3 October 2017—A United Nations (UN) resolution regarding the situation in Yemen, introduced by Egypt on behalf of the Arab Group and supported by the entire membership of the UN Human Rights Council, called&hellip
Closure of Business and Detention of Baha’i Citizen, Kamran Shahidi
Source: adian.bashariyat.org Translation by Iran Press Watch September 30, 2017, by the Committee for the Defense of the Rights of All Religious Individuals Kamran Shahidi, a Baha’i living in Tehran, was arrested on Monday, September 25,&hellip
UN Human Rights Council – 36th Session
Source: www.bic.org Agenda Item 10 GENEVA—28 September 2017 Mr. President, The people of Yemen are all suffering under an extremely dire humanitarian situation, and their strife appears to be daily increasing. Furthermore, Yemeni Bahá’ís, as a&hellip
Freed Iranian Baha’i Leader Mahvash Sabet Describes Unjust Trial, Prison Conditions
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org “We never betrayed our country and never will.” Mahvash Sabet, a leader of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i faith who was released from Evin Prison on September 18, 2017 after completing a 10-year sentence, said she was convicted of espionage&hellip
Beyond Prison Walls: Mahvash Sabet Speaks with France Medias Monde
Source: fa.rfi.fr Editor’s note: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani and Shahram Yazdani translated the poems and Iran Press Watch translated the rest. Mahvash Sabet, a member of the Baha’i Community of Iran, who has been in prison due to her&hellip
Iranian Baha’i Students Offered University Enrollment in Exchange For Renouncing Their Faith
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Two members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran have been offered university enrollment in exchange for renouncing their religion, according to information received by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). According&hellip
More Than 115 Iranian Baha’is Have Banned from Universities
Source: iranwire By Kian Sabeti 115 Iranian Baha’is have banned from universities. This year the officials told Baha’is who had passed the entrance exams they might be able to study, but they said they need&hellip
Kamal Kashani and Farahmand Sanaei, Baha’i Prisoners Released after 5 Years
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Kamal Kashani and Farahmand Sanaei, two Baha’i religious prisoners from Gorgan, were released from Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, on 22 September 2017, after completing&hellip
English Pen Is Delighted to Welcome the Release of Teacher and Poet Mahvash Sabet After More Than a Decade in Prison
Source: www.englishpen.org Teacher and poet Mahvash Sabet was one of a group of seven Baha’i leaders known as the ‘Yaran-i-Iran’ – ‘Friends of Iran’ – detained in 2008 for their faith and activities related to running&hellip
Bahraini King’s Declaration of Worldwide Religious Tolerance Unveiled at Historic Simon Wiesenthal Center Interfaith Event
Source: www.wiesenthal.com The Bahrain Declaration on Religious Tolerance – a plain-speaking attack against terrorism authored by HRH King Hamad of Bahrain – was released at an historic event co-sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.&hellip
Multiple Baha’i and Non-Baha’i Family Residences Searched in Gilan Providence, Two Baha’i Women Arrested
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On the 11th of September 2017, units of intelligence agents affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and holding orders from Prosecutor’s Office, conducted a series&hellip
More than 70 Iranian Baha’is Denied University In September
Source: en.radiofarda.com By Mahtab Vahidi Rad More than 70 Baha’i students have reportedly been denied entry to universities in Iran despite successfully passing the national admissions tests. According to some sources, the number of Baha’is who&hellip
Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Summoned to Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Culture and Media / Passport Confiscated
Source: humanrightsiniran.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the website of Human Rights in Iran, film producer Kaveh Farnam has reported that the passport of Mohammad Rasoulof was confiscated upon his return to Iran on&hellip
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