Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch 22 January, 2015 HRANA News Agency- Rozita Vaseghi, a Baha’i, has been freed from Vakeel-Abad prison in Mashhad after five years imprisonment. According to HRANA, the news agency of…
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Interview with a Baha’i Student Who Was Expelled after One Hour
Source: Radio JiBi, Published January 18, 2015 Behrad Azargan, a student in the field of Electronic Technology in the Department of Industrial Power at Mulla Sadra Polytechnic Institute of Technology of Ramsar, after passing five…
Bahai Home and Workplace Raided in Shiraz
Source: wp.me/pNMoJ-2dh January 21, 2015 On January 19, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided the workplace and then the home of Mr. Hasan Salehi in Shiraz. They had a search warrant for both properties. The…
Activist Imprisoned for Supporting Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org/fa/thought-and-expression/atena-3 Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday, the 8th of January, 2015 HRANA – Atena Farghadani, a civil rights activist, has been summoned to the 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court by Judge Abu’l-Qasim…
My Grandfather Passed Away in Adel-Abad Prison
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Parisa Sabet I don’t quite recollect “Golestan Javeed,” the old Baha’i cemetery of Shiraz, which has been recently razed to the ground. I only know that my paternal grandfather,…
Expulsion of a Baha’i Student after Studying for a Semester
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-420 Translation by Iran Press Watch January 11, 2015 HRANA News Agency Noora Mossama, a student majoring in Computer Software Engineering at the State University of Mazandaran, was dismissed at the end of her first…
Why Are Burial Rights Being Denied to a Baha’i in Iran?
11 JAN 2015, POSTED BY ALISON LESLEY Source: www.worldreligionnews.com/issues/why-are-burial-rights-being-denied-to-a-bahai-in-iran SHAMEL BINA PASSED AWAY IN OCTOBER 2014, BUT HIS REMAINS ARE UNBURIED BECAUSE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE REFUSING BURIAL RIGHTS. What should have been a period of mourning for most…
Arrest of Several Baha’i Residents of Abadeh in Connection to the Baha’i Virtual University in Iran
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: Friday, January 2, 2015 HRANA News Agency – Agents of the Ministry of Information in the city of Abadeh arrested Farshid Rastegar, as well as other Baha’i students…
Bahai Suffers Lethal Poisoning in Shiraz
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-406 Translation by Sen’s daily Leila Kargar, a 42-year-old Bahai woman living in Shiraz, has been poisoned and killed by an unknown person, using Aluminium Phosphide, a powder that is used to kill insects and…
Two Months in the Morgue: One Facet of Campaign to Make Iranian Baha’is Invisible
Source: Baha’i World News Service 29 December 2014 GENEVA — The body of a Baha’i has been held in the morgue for nearly two months in the large, southern Iranian city of Ahvaz because local…
Bahai Summoned and Warned in Salmas
Source: nisannews.net/?p=3679 Translation by Sen’s daily Mansour Lahiji, a Bahai from Kerman province who settled in Salmas (West Azerbayjan province) with his family three years ago, was summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence in the city…
Baha’is Banned from the Optometry Sector in Tehran
Source: Sen’s daily The Association of Optometry Manufacturers and Sellers in Tehran held its eighth trade fair, the Optics Exhibition, in Vesal Avenue on December 16 to 19. Eighty businesses took part. Not only were…
I Grew up Away from My Mother, in Prison Meeting Halls
Source: www.roozonline.com November 26, 2014 Translation by Iran Press Watch The story of many years of prison visits, by Fariba Kamalabadi’s daughter By Fereshteh Ghazi [email protected] She was thirteen years…
Baha’is Have No Citizenship Rights, Says Grand Ayatollah
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org A high-ranking cleric and Khomeini-era member of the Supreme Judicial Council has told Fars News Agency that Baha’is are not entitled to citizenship rights. The statement was made only weeks after Mohammad Javad Larijani, Head of…
A Baha’i Student Interviews Three Members of Iranian Parliament; All Tell Her She Has No Right to a University Education Because She Is Baha’i.
Source: en.iranwire.com Wednesday 17 December 2014 IranWire Citizen Journalist The following piece was written by an Iranian citizen journalist on the ground inside the country, who writes under a pseudonym to protect his identity. I am a third-year…
Prayer Leader of Rafsanjan: Baha’is Are Untouchable and Have to Leave Town
Source: Persian Deutsche Welle (PDW) Translation by Iran Press Watch 12/04/14 Abbas Ramazanipour, the Islamic prayer leader of Rafsanjan – a city in southern Iran – in the presence of many officials of that city, declared…
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