Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/6ub5VH Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-21V Two Bahais were arrested by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence in their homes in Yazd this morning. Their names are Ms. Tannaz Mohammedi and Mr. Iraj…
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Woonona Man’s Pain at Cemetery Desecration
Source: http://goo.gl/uGsABK By GEMMA KHAICY June 22, 2014, 8 p.m. The excavation of a cemetery in Iran has angered Woonona’s Khosrow Kouhbor, whose family and friends have been buried at the site. The Bahá’í man said he…
Shomeis Mohajer Begins Her Sentence
Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/gT4qSq Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-21Q Shomeis Mohajer, a Bahai from Tehran, has reported to Evin Prison in Tehran to begin serving her one-year sentence. She was one of almost 20 Bahais who were arrested…
Shahram Chiniyan in Solitary Cell
Source: HRANA, http://tinyurl.com/nkem2u3 Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-21M Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab, a Tehran Bahai serving an 8-year sentence, has been moved to solitary confinement in Raja’i Shahr prison. On May 28 HRANA reported that he had…
Prison Poem: Deliverance
As Mr. Sa’id Reza’i (1) told a friend of his in a phone conversation, during the early period of the arrest of the YARAN, when they were going through interrogations and had a difficult time, one…
Prison Poem: Wayfarer of Heart and Soul
Mr. Reza’i (1) told his friend that he wrote this poem for the friends who take part in Study Circles outside Iran. He explained the imagery in the poem as follows: the Baha’is of the…
Leva Khanjani Freed from Evin Prison
Source:HRANA, http://goo.gl/TUPblw Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://goo.gl/W2OEyn Leva Khanjani, a Bahai excluded from tertiary education, has been freed from Evin prison after serving most of a two-year sentence. She was arrested on January 3, 2010, along…
Iran’s Repressed Religious Minorities Using Internet To Practice Faith
Source: http://www.payvand.com/news/14/jun/1152.html By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL Majzooban.org, a website dedicated to news and information about the Gonabadi dervishes in Iran, has been blocked more than 40 times since its launch in 2007. Iranian authorities have also…
How a 19th-Century Persian Faith Became the Second-Most Common Religion in Our State
Source: http://goo.gl/WZbguJ Why So Many Bahá’í? By Paul Bowers @ccpnews A map purporting to show the second-largest religion in each state appeared on the Washington Post‘s GovBeat blog early this month, and it made a surprising claim: Of all 50…
Letter from the Baha’i Professors in Rajai-Shahr Prison to the Country’s Intellectuals
Source: http://www.irangreenvoice.com/article/2014/jun/12/44119 Translation by Iran Press Watch The Green Freedom Call Date: June 12, 2014 In a letter to Iran’s intellectuals from Rajai-Shahr Prison, a group of professors, managers and associates of the Baha’i Institute for…
On Three Continents Prominent Muslims Denounce Persecution of Iran’s Baha’is, Call for Religious Coexistence
Source: Bahai World News Service, news.bahai.org/story/1009 17 June 2014 PARIS — In the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, prominent Muslims have spoken out recently against the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, denouncing the religious intolerance…
Threatening Anti-Baha’i Posters Distributed in Yazd, Iran
Source: Bahai World News Service, http://news.bahai.org/story/1010 18 June 2014 GENEVA — A highly inflammatory and threatening flier calling Baha’is “godless” was distributed in the city of Yazd, Iran, last week on the eve of an important…
Susan Tebyaniyan’s Irregular Detention Continues
Source: HRANA, goo.gl/2UbmpM Translation from Sen’s Daily, goo.gl/zOGIM4 Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested 17 days ago in her home, and has been held since then, without clarification of her status, in Semnan’s…
A Heart-Felt Note from a Baha’i Youth from Tabriz, Iran
Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/5y8K90 Translation by Iran Press Watch (Regarding the issues of educational and economic discrimination, and even the right of burial) Saturday June 14, 2014 I am a Baha’i citizen residing in Tabriz…
An Ayatollah in Iran Takes an Unorthodox Step in Support of Baha’is
[www.internationalpolicydigest.org] A few weeks ago, a senior clergyman in Iran, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi Tehrani, did the unthinkable. He joined a gathering of human rights activists commemorating the sixth anniversary of the incarceration of the seven-person leadership group of…
Opinion: Canada Should Aid Iranian Minorities
[montrealgazette.com] BY KYLE MATTHEWS, SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE JUNE 10, 2014 MONTREAL — Iran is often in the news because of its suspected nuclear-weapons program. A nuclear Iran certainly poses a threat to international…
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