Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by No to Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’i Compatriots: Azita Rafizadeh, who had previously been sentenced to four years imprisonment for teaching at the online Baha’i…
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Confiscation of Baha’i’s Farmland in Semnan
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Fifty Hectares (125 acres) of farmland belonging to a 65 year old Baha’i in Semnan have been confiscated. The confiscation was ordered by individuals from the Agriculture…
Prison Poem: “Beyond Imagination”
Source: saeedrezaee.com By Saeid Rezaie Translation by Nasser Beyond imagination I stay in this cage For you to fly And be the resonating echo of my voice In a universe where no sound is ever heard * And this…
Ten Year Old Baha’i, Not Allowed to Attend School
Thursday 10/08/2015 Source: www.roozonline.com by Fereshteh Ghazi Translation by Iran Press Watch Aref Hekmat-Shoar has been expelled from school because he is a Bahai. He is ten years old. Gahvareh Danesh School is not the only…
Education is a Human Right
Source: Persian Media Production
Afif Naeimi Returned to Hospital
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily Afif Naeimi, a Bahai prisoner of conscience held in Raja’i Shahr prison, and one of the seven Yaran (national facilitators for the Bahai community in Iran), was taken to hospital…
Three More Bahais Tried in Gorgan
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily On October 12 a court in Gorgan, in Iran’s Golestan Province, held the sixth in a series of trials of the Baha’is who were arrested in the Province in October,…
Tahereh Reza’i Arrested and Sent to Yazd Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 19 October 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BaháiNews”, Tahereh Reza’i, a Baha’i resident of Isfahan, was arrested in front of her home on 19 October and transferred later that day to…
A Letter From the Heart of Mozhdeh Fahandezh to Her Husband in Prison
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch (…. now is the 147th time……) My dear Farhad, I am a traveller…., a wayfarer who, with loads of love, is setting forth every week from Gorgan to Karaj;…
Rosita Eshraghi, Whose Parents and Sister Were Executed in 1983 Has Now Seen Her Husband Go to Prison for the Fourth Time
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Rosita Eshraghi, whose parents and sister were imprisoned in Shiraz in 1983 and executed within two days by the Islamic Republic, has now seen her husband go to prison…
Remarks of the Deputy Chairman of the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament against Baha’i citizens: “Baha’ism is not an acceptable religious minority in Iran”
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Haghighat-Pour added: Religious minorities are legally recognized in Iran. Of course, Baha’ism is a minority, created by the British, that is not recognized by the laws of the Islamic…
Shahram Eshraghi Transferred to Isfahan Prison to Serve a Three-Year Sentence
Source: BahaiNews1 Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Translated by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by “BahaiNews” and quoted by an informed source, Shahram Eshraghi – a Baha’i citizen – has been transferred to Isfahan Prison. This…
Documentary Shows Trial of Executed Baha’is
Source: news.bahai.org 21 October 2015 Previously unseen footage of the 1981 trial of members of the governing body of the Baha’i community in Iran has been broadcast for the first time as part of a documentary…
Award-winning Film Explores Power of Religion
Source: news.bahai.org 20 October 2015 Internationally renowned Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, has made available to the general public his award-winning film, The Gardener. Filmed in the Baha’i gardens on the slopes of Mount Carmel and in the…
An Assembly Executed
Source: aasoo.org This film is shortened video of a trial held in 1981 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court at Evin Prison in Iran. It is the main segment of the trial, held in 1981, of seven…
Baha’i Student Expelled From School for Not Participating in the Congregational Friday Prayer
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by “BahaiNews”, Parsa Hemmat, a Baha’i citizen residing in Isfahan, has been prevented from continuing his education. Parsa Hemmat, who was in his second year of…
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