Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a BahaiNews report, following the repeated closure of Baha’i citizens’ businesses in recent months, the Office of Public Places in Mazandaran province has extrajudicially demanded that Baha’i…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by BahaiNews, Nasim Mahboub Rahvafa is a Baha’i resident of Shiraz who was barred from entering university after successful participation in the Iranian University Entrance Examination…
Source: BahaiNews1 Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch On 31 December 2016, six Baha’i citizens who were students at Islamic Azad University of Roudehen were expelled because of their belief in the…
Source: Tavaana Translation by Iran Press Watch Last week Shokoufeh Ranjbar, a midwifery student in Orumiyeh, was expelled from the University after she had completed eighty credits of education because she is a Baha’i. According…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i News Press, Pegah Dehghani Muhammadi, a Baha’i resident of Tehran province, has been expelled from university due to her belief in the Baha’i Faith. Based…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Date: 16th January 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch Dorna Esmailie and Maedeh Hossieni Rad, from the cities of Shiraz and Esfahan, were expelled from university because of their belief as Baha’is. According to…
Source: www.pbs.org BY GEORGE JAHN AND ALICIA A. CALDWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA — Austria has shut its door to about 300 non-Muslim Iranians hoping to use the country as a way station before establishing new homes…
Source: www.bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from the “No to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’is in Iran” Campaign, Nima Ighanian, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was expelled from university because…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Fifteen Baha’i Students Expelled in December and January At least 15 Baha’i students were expelled from Iranian universities between December 2016 and January 2017, with university officials trying to eliminate any trace of the…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Seven citizens were arrested in Yazd because of their belief in the Baha’i Faith. According to the report from the Website of Human Rights in Iran, quoting BahaiNews, Farzad…
By Masih Alinejad In this interview that Masih Alinejad has conducted with Ayatollah Alidoost, she directed him a question about the possibility of the expulsion of Muslim-Americans from the US after the presidency of Trump.…
Source: Study International Staff The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The family of a Baha’i soldier who died on the Piranshahr front during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war has asked in a letter for the Miyandoab Martyr’s Foundation to…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Samir Kholoosi, a Baha’I resident of Kerman, was arrested and taken to the detention center of the Ministry of Information by security agents on December…
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Ms. Nikouseresht told “Iranwire”: “After the end of the class on Wednesday, 28 December, I went to the university website to check my status, and I…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Iqan Shahidi, an activist for education rights, was released from Rajai-Shahr Prison on 1 January 2017, after completing his sentence. On 2 March 2010, Shahidi and several education and…
