Editor’s Note: The following essay is reprinted from American Thinker and is by Amil Imani, a pro-democracy activist in the United States. Mr. Imani is a columist, literary traslator, novelist and essayist, who has been writing…
Monthly Archives For August 2009
New Judiciary Chief Should Tackle Rights Abuse
Editor’s Note: The following call for action was posted on the site of Human Rights Watch on August 28, 2009. By Human Rights Watch (New York) -The new head of Iran’s judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Ardishir…
Interrogation, Jail and Threatening in the Ministry of Science in response to Seeking the Human Right of Education
Editor’s Note: The following report was posted on the online site of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and appears below in an edited form. By: Committee of Human Rights Reporters Deprivation of education is…
Crops of Baha’i Farmer Set on Fire
Earlier today, the following news was reported by the online site of Human Rights Activists News Agency: Independent and reactionary elements have set on fire the harvest of a Baha’i. On August 20, 2009, the crops of Mirza Aqa…
Baha’i Sentenced in Sanandaj
Iran Press Watch has previously reported on the arrest of Mr. Zabiu’llah Raufi, a Baha’i resident of Sanandaj (IPW). Further details are provided by the online site of Human Rights Activists News Agency on Saturday,…
3 Baha’i Prisoners in Sari
Editor’s Note: The following report was posted on Friday, August 28, 2009, by the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and appears below in translation: The trial of three Baha’i citizens by the names of Vesal…
University Matriculation
Editor’s Note: The following report was filed by the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and appears on their English page. It is reproduced below with minor adjustments for grammar, etc. Recent unrest in Iran and…
Interview with an Iranian Baha’i Student
Editor’s Note: Below is a summary of an interview with Mr. Vahed Kholusi, conducted by Talatum Information Dissemination Centre, in a translation by Iran Press Watch. Mr. Vahed Kholousi is an Iranian Baha’i student deprived…
Short Updates
The following news items were reported on the Persian page of Baha’i World News Service on August 26, 2009. Hamadan (BWNS1): Mrs. Mehrangiz Husayni, a resident of Hamadan, who was arrested last year on October…
Stop Persecuting the Baha'is of Iran: A Personal Plea
Editor’s Note: The following is a Letter to the Editor that Iran Press Watch has received from a concerned reader. Many readers may have experienced situations similar to those which are now occurring to the…
Deadly Fatwa: Iran’s 1988 Massacre
Press Release Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Releases Report on Iran’s 1988 Massacre of Thousands of Political Prisoners August 27, 2009 New Haven, Connecticut – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) today released a…
Most Shameful Sham Trial of 30 Years
Editor’s Note: Iran has a long and sad history of creating show-trials for the public consumption, though it appears that even the most gullible Iranians are no longer buying these show-trials and seeing through the…
Montazeri Condemns Iranian Regime
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, August 26, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri issued a proclamation in response to a letter dated August 23 by some 293 Iranian intellectuals, journalists, human rights activists and other concerned citizens. Iran Press Watch…
A Positive Development
Earlier today, Thursday, August 27, 2009, BBC Persian reported that Abdolfattah Soltani was freed from incarceration in Evin prison after enduring more than two months of imprisonment, of which 17 days was spent in solitary…
The Forgotten Child
Editor’s Note: For the last 30 years, the Baha’i community of Iran has been deprived of access to institutions of higher education and forced to develop an open university known as BIHE. However, it now appears…
Open Letter of Masumeh Dehqan
Abdolfattah Soltani is a well-known advocate with the human rights center in Tehran. He was arrested in the aftermath of Iran’s disputed June 12 presidential election; according to the International Campaign for Human Rights, he…
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