Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Faezeh Hashemi, the outspoken daughter of prominent former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been threatened with prosecution by a high ranking Judiciary official following her meeting with Baha’i leader Fariba Kamalabadi and other well-known civil…
Source: en.iranwire.com Friday 27 May 2016 Amy Fehilly, Natasha Schmidt Not A Crime’s education equality campaign raises awareness of the educational apartheid against the Baha’is of Iran, the country’s largest religious minority. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the…
Source: BBC Persian, 17th of May 2016 Translation by Iran Press Watch Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi 1, one of the Grand Ayatollahs in the Iranian religious studies center in Qum, has strongly condemned the visit of Faezeh…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from “BahaiNews”, more than thirteen businesses have been sealed off for the second time in Qaem Shahr, in Northern Iran. Based on previous reports…
Source: www.bazdasht.com Translation by Iran Press Watch The Bazdasht website has reported the dire health condition of the 66 year old Baha’i prisoner Dr Foad Moghaddam. Dr Moghaddam, who is a physician, has been in Raja’i…
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Shahin Negari was born in September 1969 in a family of six (father, mother and four sons) in Mashhad. He is the second son, and his…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Payam Akhavan, Professor of International Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Cover of Panjereh magazine condemning Faezeh Hashemi’s support of imprisoned Iranian Baha’i leaders The Islamic Republic of Iran is facing a big problem. As…
Source: zeitoons.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 21 May 2016 A statement by a group of modern religious scholars about the necessity to be tolerant toward those who think or believe differently: Belief cannot be a basis…
Source: www.bbc.com 14th May, 2016 Translation by Iran Press Watch The interviewer (Nader Soltanpour): Mr. Muhammad Nourizad 1; political activist and critic of the Iranian government, is with us on the phone from Tehran. The interviewer:…
Source: حباب (facebook page) Translation by Iran Press Watch Seeing you again is the sole hope of my existence. My Dearest Saeid 1; Eight years have passed, and you are still incarcerated in the prison of oppression…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from “BahaiNews”, the oppression of Baha’is in Kashan ‒ a city in Central Iran ‒ has intensified, as two Baha’i students there have been…
Source: Facebook Page of Sadegh Zibakalam 1 Translation by Iran Press Watch What Ms. Faezeh Hashemi did [meeting with the Baha’i leader Fariba Kamalabadi, who was on furlough from Evin Prison] was the right thing to…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Faezeh Hashemi, Daughter of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Criticized for Meeting with Baha’i Leader A high-ranking member of the Iranian Judiciary has said that action will be taken against Faezeh Hashemi, the outspoken daughter of prominent…
Source: www.bbc.com By Kasra Naji BBC Persian Faezeh Hashemi was photographed sitting next to Fariba Kamalabadi A political storm has erupted in Iran after the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visited a leader…
Source: Bahai World News Service Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations NEW YORK — A storm of furious denunciation, in reaction to a simple meeting between two friends…
Source: justice4iran.org Ten NGOs wrote to the EU authorities expressing deep concern over the case of 32 Iranian Bahá’ís who were sentenced to a collective 238 years in prison in essence for practicing their faith. The NGOs pointed…
