Source: www.bic.org United Nations—22 September 2016—Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s call today for an end to religious sectarianism ignored Iran’s own intense persecution of its largest religious minority, thus undermining the very point he was trying to…
Source: www.publicaffairs.bahai.us September 21, 2016 WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution “Condemning the Government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of its Baha’i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on…
Source: www.intpolicydigest.org By Reza Afshari As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani prepares to address the UN General Assembly for the fourth time – and the last time before the next Iranian presidential election in 2017 – I…
Source: www.fidh.org 10 September, 2016 By Abdolkarim Lahiji1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Prologue – Ms. Bani Dugal, Principal Representative of the Baha’i International Community at the United Nations, on 6 September 2016, in a letter…
Source: www.justice4iran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch In June 2014, Sahba Rezvani, sister of Ataollah Rezvani, wrote a number of letters to: the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani; Sadegh Amoli Larijani, Head of the Judiciary; Mohammad…
Source: www.justice4iran.org March 10, 2013 Introduction The Persecution of Bahá’ís is not a new phenomenon. Bahá’ís have been persecuted throughout the history of their faith in Iran. As Eliz Sanasarian notes in her book, Religious Minorities…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org The recently released audio recording of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri sharply denouncing the mass execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 has highlighted disagreements among prominent figures of the Islamic Republic that arose from…
Source: irannewsupdate.com By INU Staff INU – As described in the United States State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2015, the Iranian constitution declares the country to be “an Islamic Republic, and Ja’afari Shia Islam to be the…
Source: hra-news.org Peace Line Monthly – It is no secret that after the Revolution the civil rights of the Baha’is in Iran has been constantly violated. Today, these violations of rights have clearly attracted the attention of…
Source: www.gov.uk There has been little change in the human rights situation in Iran between January and June 2016. In many respects, the situation has worsened, despite President Rouhani pledging to improve the rights and freedoms…
Source: jia.sipa.columbia.edu Sunday, June 5th, 2016 By Shahin Milani Regions Middle East Keywords: Bahá’í, Citizenship Rights Charter, Iran Vol 69, No 2 Spring/Summer 2016 Article Page 137-146 This article examines the situation of Iran’s Bahá’í community, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority,…
Source: vimeo By Shapour Daneshmand I was recently invited by Steve Gonzales, Associate Prof. of Law at Arizona Summit Law School, to speak to an audience of lawyers at the Arizona Summit Law School on the…
Source: muftah.org Zackery M. Heern, Ahmed Shaheed Faezeh Hashemi meets with Baha’i leader Fariba Kamalabadi last month. May 14, 2016 marked the eight-year anniversary of the imprisonment of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran. Their names are Fariba Kamalabadi,…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org ICHRI– When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed his government’s inability—or reluctance—to face the issue even though President…
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Following continuing attacks on the Baha’is and their human rights supporters, the Prosecutor General of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Muhammad Jafar Montazeri, has warned: “those individuals who contact…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org State Officials Launch New Wave of Verbal Attacks after Former President’s Daughter Visits Baha’i Prisoner June 07, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Impact Iran released an animated video today calling for an…
