Source: news.bahai.org SYDNEY — Farmers as well as agricultural scientists and policy makers from Australia, Africa and North America have joined the global outcry at the unjust confiscation of lands belonging to Bahá’í farmers in&hellip
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Canadian Legal Luminaries Sign Letter Accusing Iranian Courts of Persecuting Baha’i Faith
Source: www.cbc.ca Evan Dyer A group that includes Brian Mulroney and Jody Wilson-Raybould is denouncing confiscation of Baha’i homes The rulings of a court in a rural corner of northeastern Iran have brought together a Who’s&hellip
Tragic History of Baha’is Who Died in Prison
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Behnam Mahjoubi, a prisoner of conscience, was transferred from Evin Prison to Loghman Hospital in Tehran, on February 13, 2021. He was in a coma. Three days later doctors gave up hope for his&hellip
Collective Statement by Iranian Religious Modernists, Condemning Confiscation of Baha’i Property
Source: www.kaleme.com We urgently request that the Iranian government and the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic end the brutal confiscation of Baha’i property throughout the country and impartially attend to the grievances of the Baha’is and&hellip
Baha’i Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Jail
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian Baha’i citizen named Parisa Sadeghi has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of membership of the Baha’i faith, IranWire has learned. An informed source told IranWire that Branch 36 of&hellip
Eight Baha’is Jailed in Bandar Abbas
Source: iranwire.com Eight Baha’i citizens living in Bandar Abbas and Shiraz have been summoned to the Bandar Abbas Penal Enforcement Unit to begin serving their sentences.The notices issued to the eight, whose sentence was upheld at&hellip
Bahai Family Sentenced to a Total of 7 Years in Prison in Tehran
Source: irannewswire.org The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced three members of a Bahai family to a total of seven years of prison yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the three Bahais were identified&hellip
#ItsTheirLand Twitter Storm in Support of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com A tempest of tweets is expected to sweep the Internet today and tomorrow, 22 and 23 February, in support of the Baha’is in Ivel, a village in northern Iran, whose land has been confiscated by the&hellip
A Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel
Source: www.wsj.com By Reza Afshari Followers of the Baha’i faith are persecuted at home but welcomed abroad. Israel is the last country where an Iranian raised in a Muslim family would have expected to find a&hellip
“An Extraordinary Wave of Support”: Calls in Unison for Iran to End Persecution of Bahá’ís
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Bahá’ís in the Iranian farming village of Ivel. The&hellip
Muslim Leaders and Former Canadian PM Denounce Confiscation of Baha’i Homes
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti A special court in Iran’s Mazandaran province, and subsequently an appeals court, have ruled that the recent confiscations of 27 homes owned by Baha’is in the village of Ivel by the Imam&hellip
‘World Is Watching’ Iran’s Treatment of Baha’is
Source: www.winnipegfreepress.com By: John Longhurst Members of Winnipeg’s Baha’i community have welcomed an open letter from 45 former Canadian judges, justice ministers, and lawyers decrying human rights abuses in Iran. “Anytime we see a gesture like this,&hellip
Baha’is in Ivel, Iran, Have No Right to Property
Source: www.bahai.se Iran’s systematic persecution of the Baha’is The Baha’is in Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, have been systematically persecuted by the authorities for the past 40 years. Alarming reports from Iran indicate that&hellip
Open letter by Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel Decrying Iran’s Seizures of Baha’i Lands
Source: www.bahai.se
Canadians Object to Iran’s Seizures of Baha’i Lands
Source: www.rcinet.ca By Lynn Desjardins Several Canadians in the legal profession have written to Iran’s chief justice denouncing court orders legalizing the seizure of lands owned by members of the Baha’i religious minority. Members of this minority&hellip
Sentencing of Eight Baha’is Sets Dismal New Legal Precedent
Source: iranwire.com On February 2, 2021, Branch Two of the Hormozgan Court of Appeal upheld the prison sentences of eight Baha’i citizens. The court, presided over by Judge Mashaleh Afsharpour and Counsel Ebrahim Mohammadi, rejected the&hellip
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