Source: thewire.in In recent weeks, at least 71 individuals across the country have been arrested, summoned to court, tried, sentenced to jail or imprisoned – solely for their beliefs. New Delhi: Even as the pandemic has yet…
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Source: thewire.in In recent weeks, at least 71 individuals across the country have been arrested, summoned to court, tried, sentenced to jail or imprisoned – solely for their beliefs. New Delhi: Even as the pandemic has yet…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iran’s Baha’is have seen an increase in persecution during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly in Shiraz, the Baha’i International Community has reported. The group issued a statement about the increased pressures on Iran’s Baha’i community…
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Negin Ghedamian, an imprisoned Baha’i citizen in Iran who was arrested in mid-December 2017 and is serving a five-year sentence in Evin Prison, is still jailed despite a recent…
Source: iran-hrm.com While the Coronavirus has been ravaging in various provinces across Iran, the regime’s security and judicial apparatus have heightened their persecution of minorities and political and civil rights activists. In May, many prisoners who…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – this morning, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Vahed Kholousi Derakhshan, a human rights activist and a Baha’i citizen, was informed of his early release after contacting…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Payman Koushk Baghi, a Baha’i citizen who had been sent on leave from Evin Prison on 18 March, 2020 was informed of an order issued…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Officials at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education have repeatedly pointed out the serious shortage of doctors and nurses in Iran over the past few years.…
Source: religionnews.com Winston Nagan (RNS) — The ingenuity and adaptability of faith communities often go unreported. It’s been gratifying over the last many weeks to read story after story about the way people of faith have…
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin WASHINGTON – An international organization representing Baha’is says it is extremely concerned about Iran’s ongoing detention of up to 100 Baha’is at risk of contracting the coronavirus in Iranian prisons. In…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education has repeatedly pointed to a serious shortage of physicians and nurses in Iran over the past several years. The shortage became even more glaring…
Source: www.dw.com Baha’is are unable to legally register with the Iranian state because an “other religions” option has been removed from the identity card application. Their faith forbids them to lie about their affiliation. The removal…
Source: humanrightsinir.org Human Rights in Iran – on Tuesday 18 Feb 2020, Amnesty international, published a report analyzing human rights abuses in Iran. In this report, in detail, it examines the status of followers of other religions,…
Source: iranwire.com By MAHROKH GHOLAMHOSSEINPOUR Behnam was a young Baha’i who, in the early 1980s, during the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq, decided to go to the front; this despite Baha’i teachings, forbidding the faithful…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Baha’i resident Sahba Farnoush was sentenced to sixteen years in prison by Judge Iman Afshari, the head of Branch 4 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.…
Source: iranhr.net Translation by Iran Press Wacth Ali Asqar Faridi – Editorial Board, Huquq-i-Ma Magazine: Followers of the Baha’i Faith are one of the largest religious minority groups in Iran, but are not recognized as…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Kamran Shahidi never expected his life to change forever after a regular customer entered his jewelry shop in Tehran. But that is exactly what happened just over two years ago – resulting in a court…