(BWNS, 18 Oct 2010) UNITED NATIONS — The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has once again expressed strong concern over Iran’s ongoing human rights violations, including its persecution of Iranian Baha’is. In a…
Monthly Archives For October 2010
Understanding the new charges filed against Rozita Vaseghi and Nahid Ghadiri
Harana News Agency, Mashhad, Iran : Two Baha’i prisoners incarcerated in the Vakil-Abad prison in the city of Mashhad [Province of Khurasan, Iran] , Rozita Vaseghi and Nahid Ghadiri, who are serving five year sentences…
Siamak Iqani sentenced to three years imprisonment
HRA News- The appeals court of the province of Semnan upheld the conviction of Siamak Iqani, a Baha’i in this province. According to HRA reporters, the provincial appeals court of Semnan upheld the ruling of…
Mahin Khanjani, Baha'i in Tehran, released from custody
Saturday 17 Mehr 1389 [9 Oct 2010] at 9:19AM Mahen Khanjani, a Baha’i in Tehran who had been arrested by security forces, was released from custody at noon today.
Legal questions over Iran Bahá'í trial
The Guardian, Saturday 9 October 2010 On 8 August it was reported that seven Iranian citizens – Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm and Mahvash Sabet – had been sentenced…
UK heads of religion call for release of Iran's seven Baha'i leaders
(BWNS — 7 Oct 2010) LONDON — Britain’s most prominent heads of religion have called for the release of the seven Baha’i leaders serving prison sentences in Iran. A statement by the United Kingdom’s religious…
Final defence from two Mashhad Baha'is
(HRANA, 6 October 2010) Noora Nabilzadeh and Behman Yazdani ( نورا نبیل زاده و بهمن یزدانی), two Bahai residents of Mashhad in North-East Iran, were summoned to court on 6 October for the final defense…
Baha’i Citizen Sentenced to One Year in Prison and One Year of Exile and Barred from Employment
(RAHANA ) 6 , October , 2010 Baha’i citizen Hossein Shaygan has been sentenced to one year in prison and one year of exile and has been barred from employment.
Expulsion of Ruhollah Qudrat, Baha'i medical student in Rafsanjan, due to a letter from Ministry of Health and Medical Education
According to the news received by Population to Combat Educational Discrimination [see http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5889], Ruhollah Qudrat, a Baha’i medical student at Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences has been deprived of his right to continue his education,…
We are not Spies! — a play by Mansour Taeed
“Are you a Muslim, an Armenian, an Assyrian or a Jew? Are you a Zoroastrian, a Buddhist or even a Baha’i? Are you a feminist, a leftist? Are you fed up with religion all together?…
Baha’i Citizen Vahid Ghodrat Detained in Yazd
Vahid Ghodrat, a 54 year old Baha’i resident of Yazd, has been detained. (RAHANA, 5 Oct 2010): The authorities have stated that the reason for his arrest has been anti- regime propaganda.
Unidentified individuals attack Bahá’í Citizen on exile
4-Oct-2010, Human Rights News Agency of Iran – RAHANA Foad Naeemi, Bahá’í citizen who was sentenced to two years incarceration and exiled to Eghlid, was attacked and brutally beaten by two unidentified individuals.
Why am I not a Baha'i (by Hadi Haddad)
By Hadi Haddad. – 1:04 PM 18 Mordad, 1389 [9 Aug 2010] Why am I not a Baha’i? Why? The question “why am I not a Baha’i” is a very intriguing proposition. For example, one…
Iran sentences Baha'i aide to Nobel laureate to 2 years in jail
Tehran, Iran (CNN) — A Baha’i assistant of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has been sentenced to two years in prison in Iran, the semi-official Mashregh news website said Saturday.
Weekly Report on Violation of Baha’i Rights
Two years of imprisonment for the secretary of the Defenders of Human Rights Center and a Baha’i citizen who has been deprived of education, the pressure on the Mashhad female Baha’i prisoners of conscience and…
Workplace of a Baha'i in Karaj is burned down
(HRANA, Monday, 27 Sept 2010): In keeping with the latest escalation of the persecution and repression of Baha’is in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the workplace of one Baha’i in Karaj [a suburb of Tehran]…
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