Source: spokanefavs.com Cassy Benefield Religious freedom is priceless to Fereshteh Momeni. An Iranian Baha’i now living in Medical Lake, she lived through the Iranian revolution in 1979 and her country’s transition into the Islamic Republic…
Baha’i Martyr
#OurStoryIsOne Campaign Unites Baha’i Executions and Gender Equality in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti June 18, 1983, marks a haunting chapter of intolerance and injustice in Iran’s history. Ten Baha’i women, whose only crime was their religious faith, were hanged in Shiraz’s Chowgan Square, after facing an…
Let’s Make Our Story One – Before It’s Too Late
Source: iranwire.com SHABNAM MOINIPOUR Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranians were either ecstatic or silent. Their charismatic leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had won a revolution that they thought would bring them sunshine and roses. The…
BIC Geneva: Campaign honors Bahá’í women executed in Iran 40 years ago and highlights principle of equality
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — June 18, 2023 will mark 40 years since the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out a chilling act of oppression: 10 Bahá’í women were hanged in a single night in…
Remembering a Baha’i Scientist Executed for Her Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On December 27, 1981, eight Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the…
Payman Sobhani: The Untold Story of a Baha’i Teenager Killed by Fanatics in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti In 2008, the Baha’i International Community published the names of 221 Iranian Baha’is who had been murdered or executed in the three decades since the Islamic Revolution. The youngest on this list…
Bahman Samandari: The Baha’i Executed 24 Hours After His Arrest
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Ebrahim Raisi, then Tehran’s Revolutionary Prosecutor, now President Raisi responded in a 1992 interview to United Nations accusations regarding persecution of the Baha’is. “The execution of a Baha’i by the name Bahman Samandari…
My Wife’s Grandfather Was Executed for His Baha’i Faith. Iran Hasn’t Changed Enough.
Source: religionnews.com By James Samimi Farr As I watch the grim carousel that is the nuclear talks go round and round again, I think about all that may hinge on them, including, perhaps, the future of Iran’s…
They Didn’t Need Warrants
Source: www.lrb.co.uk By Saleem Vaillancourt Forty years ago the Islamic Republic of Iran admitted that it had executed my great-uncle. He was 65 years old. Mehdi Amin-Amin was survived by his wife, daughter, two grandsons and three siblings, including my…
Baha’i Assemblies After the Revolution: Arrest, Torture and Execution
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On January 4, 1982, in the turbulent years after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, seven members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Iran were executed in Tehran. Who were they?…
After 8 Years of Sabotage and Judicial Procrastination, The Murder Case of a Baha’i, Ataollah Rezvani, is Being Investigated
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ The murder case of Ata’u’llah Rezvani, a Baha’i citizen of Bandar Abbas, has been referred to Branch 6 of the Bandar Abbas Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office…
Remembering Two Baha’i Nurses Who Were Murdered Because of Their Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education has repeatedly pointed to a serious shortage of physicians and nurses in Iran over the last several years. The shortage became even more glaring…
Narrative of an Execution: 17-Year-Old Mona
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On Saturday, June 18, 1983, an hour after the weekly women’s visitation at the Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, Mona Mahmudinejad and nine other Baha’i women…
A Paradise for Murderers
Source: news.gooya.com By Bijan Masumian Translation by Iran Press Watch The root of the repression and murder of religious minorities in Iran can be traced back to the spread of religious hatred by Muslim extremists who…
Murder of a Baha’i in Yazd and Inquiry About the Rights of Baha’is
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
Kavian Milani: Message to the Torturer
Source: en.iranwire.com Thursday 28 April 2016 Message the Torturers and the Murderers Each of us have perhaps found ourselves in a situation where we have been bullied by somebody in a powerful position, and remained silent out…