Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — Vahid Tizfahm completed his 10-year sentence yesterday. At 44, he is the youngest of the seven former Baha’i leaders in Iran who were unjustly imprisoned for their religious beliefs in 2008.…
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Oldest Member of Yaran Completes Decade-Long Imprisonment
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — After a decade of unjust imprisonment and harsh treatment in Iranian prisons, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, 85, completed his ten-year sentence yesterday. He is one of the seven members of the…
Jamaloddin Khanjani Returned to Evin Prison following Heart Surgery
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – Jamaloddin Khanjani, a member of the leaders of Baha’i community of Iran known as the Yaran, was transferred to hospital for heart problems, and then was returned to Evin Prison…
Freed Baha’i Leader: Jailing Baha’is is Futile and Pointless
Source: www.iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR On the morning of Friday, February 16, Saeed Rezaei, one of the seven members of the former leadership group for Iran’s Baha’i community known as the “Yaran” (“Friends”), was released after…
Fourth Member of Yaran Released
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — After ten years of unjust imprisonment for his beliefs, Saeid Rezaie, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha’is in Iran, has today completed his wrongful…
Baha’is Still Misunderstood in Iran, Says Former Leader After Serving 10 Years in Prison
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Baha’i leader Behrouz Tavakkoli has spoken out about the Iranian government’s “misunderstandings” about his minority faith. Tavakkoli spoke to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on December 15, 2017, 11 days after his release…
Is There New Hope for Baha’is as Third Leader is Released?
Source: www.iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR Iran’s Baha’i community is celebrating the release of Behrooz Tavakoli, one of the seven members of an informal leadership group called the Yaran (“the Friends”). Tavakoli is the third of the group to…
Third Member of Yaran Completes 10 Year Sentence
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — Behrooz Tavakkoli, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha’is in Iran who were imprisoned due to religious beliefs, has completed his unjust 10-year prison sentence.…
Writing to Survive: Baha’i Woman’s Poetry Was Her Best Friend in Iranian Jail
Source: www.cnn.com By Moni Basu, CNN (CNN) –The sun had already set when the woman with long gray hair descended the steps to the same prison gate she had passed through all those years ago. Mahvash Sabet had…
Lessons from Prison: The Release of Baha’i Fariba Kamalabadi
Source: www.iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR Fariba Kamalabadi, one of seven former members of an ad hoc leadership group for the Baha’i minority religion in Iran, was released from Evin Prison on October 31 after completing a 10-year prison sentence.…
Fariba Kamalabadi: Baha’is Have No Desire but to Serve Iran
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Fariba Kamalabadi, a Baha’i community administrator imprisoned for ten years, was released on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 upon completing her sentence. Ms. Kamalabadi had been convicted on charges of…
Freedom for Prominent Baha’i Fariba Kamalabadi
Source: www.iranwire.com By SALEEM VAILLANCOURT Fariba Kamalabadi, one of seven former members of an ad hoc leadership group for the Baha’is in Iran, was released from Evin Prison today after completing a 10-year prison sentence. Her release…
Congratulatory Message for Bicentenary by Former Lawyer of Imprisoned Iranian Baha’i Leaders
Editor’s Note: Mahnaz Parakand, is a lawyer and a member of the Human Rights Defenders Center. Ms. Parakand has been responsible for the legal representation of many Iranian prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, including Christian converts and Yaran-e…
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…
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…
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…
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