[CFR, 07 Nov. 2011] Speakers: Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Dwight Bashir, Deputy Director for Policy and Research, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Presider: Irina A.…
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One Prisoner; Jamaleddin Khanjani, One of the Seven; by Mojtaba Samienejad
[RAHANA, 12 Nov 2011, Mojtaba Samienejad] The story began when life took the color of blood and prison; the 1979 Revolution in which the execution ropes were dancing in the skies to the death song and…
Baha’i Citizen Anvar Moslemi Began Serving Prison Sentence
Anvar Moslemi has begun serving his one year prison sentence in Sari Prison. He had been detained and interrogated twice before. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, he had been sentenced to one year…
Council on Foreign Relations hosts conference call on “Iranian Crackdown: The Regime Against Baha’is”
[bahai.us, 10 Nov. 2011] Religious leaders, congressional staff, policy researchers and academics participated in an unprecedented discussion about the Iranian regime’s persecution of members of the Baha’i faith, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations…
Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”
[iranhumanrights.org, 2 Nov. 2011] Following the sentencing of seven Baha’is associated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the Appeals Court will…
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: “Children of Arrested Baha’is: ‘We Have No Recourse’”
[bahai.us, 3 Nov. 2011] iranhumanrights.org, Nov. 2 – Following the sentencing of seven Baha’isassociated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the…
Iran bans 'underground university,' brands it 'extremist cult'
[CNN, 10 Nov 2011] By Tim Hume, for CNN, November 10, 2011 — Updated 1339 GMT (2139 HKT) London (CNN) — Today, Keivan Mohammad Hassan lives a peaceful life with his family as a civil…
Baha’i Citizen Parisa Babaei Arrested
[RAHANA, 6 Nov. 2011] She was arrested following a summons order to the Intelligence Ministry. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, the security forces appeared at her house and informed her that she has…
Trial of Baha'i educators: condemnation spreads
[BWNS, 7 Nov. 2011] GENEVA — As more information has emerged regarding the trial of seven Baha’i educators, the worldwide outcry at the persecution of Iranian Baha’i students and teachers continues to spread. In recent days,…
Attacks on Baha'is continue as Iran's human rights record comes under further UN scrutiny
[BWNS, 4 Nov 2011] GENEVA — As a United Nations body concluded that Iran’s persecution of Baha’is is clearly violating one of the world’s major human rights treaties, the Baha’i International Community has learned of a…
Baha’i Student Farnod Jahangiri Expelled from Babolsar University
Source: www.en-hrana.org [HRA 28-Oct-2011] HRANA News Agency – Baha’i student Farnod Jahangiri was expelled from Babolsar University in Mazandaran Province on October 12, 2011.
UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed has requested that Iranian officials cooperate and allow him to visit Iran
[RAHANA 24 Oct. 2011] After presenting his first report for the UN regarding human rights issues in Iran, the Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed requested that he be allowed to visit the country.
Arrest, Search and Interrogation of Baha’i Citizens in Northern Iran
[RAHANA 23 Oct. 2011] The authorities searched the residences of many Baha’i citizens, interrogated and detained several of them.
Baha'is accuse Iran of stoking hatred in media
By Joe Sterling, CNN, 22-Oct-2011 (CNN) — Iranian media outlets have “systematically stirred up” widespread contempt toward the country’s 300,000-strong Baha’i religious minority, the group says. The Baha’i International Community issued a report Friday entitled “Inciting…
Iran’s Outcast Religion
By FIRUZ KAZEMZADEH In some 40 years as a university professor, I have been privileged to teach students who went on to serve their people as senators, ambassadors, prominent scholars and even U.S. president. None of…
UN monitor for Iran presents first findings on human rights abuses
[BWNS 16 Oct. 2011] UNITED NATIONS — In his first report, the newly appointed UN investigator into human rights in Iran has appealed to the Iranian government to create a culture in which the fundamental rights…