[BWNS 29 June 2011] BRUSSELS, Belgium — One of the lawyers who defended Iran’s seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders has made an impassioned plea for justice during an extraordinary meeting held at the European Parliament. Mahnaz…

[BWNS 29 June 2011] BRUSSELS, Belgium — One of the lawyers who defended Iran’s seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders has made an impassioned plea for justice during an extraordinary meeting held at the European Parliament. Mahnaz…
[Sydney, 27 June 2011] The Baha’i faithful of Iran are getting their degrees with a little help from their friends at universities in Australia, writes Leesha McKenny. ACADEMIC Didar Zowghi describes meeting one of her…
BFRC (BHRWS) May 25, 2011 — Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain – The Bahrain Religious Freedom Committee(BRFC) strongly condemns the coordinated raids by Iranian authorities this weekend on numerous Baha’i homes and the arrests of more than a dozen Baha’is who have…
[USCRIF, May 24, 2011] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) strongly condemns the coordinated raids by Iranian authorities this weekend on numerous Baha’i homes and the arrests…
[Posted by owen59 on May 27, 2011] The systematic denial of education to Baha’i students in Iran has been condemned by many Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), groups and individuals. A recent event at the University of…
Debates of the Senate (Hansard)1st Session, 41st Parliament, Volume 148, Issue 6, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker Hon. Mobina S. B. Jaffer: Honourable senators, I rise before you today to speak…
(BWNS 20 June 2011) RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil —Representatives from government, religious communities and civil society organizations were among the 800 human rights supporters who gathered to call upon Iran to cease its persecution of Baha’is…
[BWNS 17 June 2011] LONDON — Iran’s human rights record has come under scrutiny at a seminar held in the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament. The panel discussion – which included members of Parliament, experts and human…
[BWNS, 16 June 2011] SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA,United States — Right up until his final moments, Valiollah Toosky’s thoughts were in Iran, with his students and colleagues at the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). His sister…
[movements.org, MAY 25, 2011] BY ASHIYAN RAHMANI-SHIRAZI This past weekend, amidst continued, under-the-radar simmering of Green Movement activities, an online educational network for Baha’i youth was raided. The Baha’i[s] are, at about 300,000 people, the largest non-Muslim religious…
[BWNS 14 June 2011] GENEVA — Governments, organisations and educators have condemned Iran’s latest attack on an initiative offering higher education to young Baha’is barred from university. The government of Austria, more than 80 prominent Indians, and…
In light of the recent attacks on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (www.bihe.org), Iran press Watch is re-posting a few articles thats sheds light on the nature of the attacks of the Islamic Republic…
We, the concerned citizens of the Republic of India, wish to place on record our strongest remonstration for the brutal and senseless persecution of the Baha’is in general and the academic staff and administrators of…
The right to education, proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and guaranteed by the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights – which has been signed and ratified by Iran – stresses…
The Guardian, Saturday 11 June 2011 Exams are here for students across the country. In Iran, too, students are busy at university – but not if they are Bahá’ís. The youth of Iran’s largest religious minority were…
(Australia, Dubbo Weekender, 4 June 2011) With the arrest in Iran last week of Farhad Sedghi, brother and brother-in-law of respected local bsuiness people Nasser and Farzin, the decades-long persecution of the Baha’i faithful in…