Source: www.bahai.org.au SYDNEY, 16 MAY 2015 Jamaloddin Khanjani, 81, is a successful businessman known for his dynamic, loving personality. Mr Khanjani established the first automated brick factory in Iran, employing hundreds of people. And when the authorities…
Source: www.youtube.com Translation by Iran Press Watch By Nasrin Sotoudeh ‒ attorney and human rights activist Anniversary of the seventh year of the imprisonment of the leaders of the Baha’i Community ‒ the Yaran (“Friends”…
Source: www.facebook.com May 15, 2015 at 1:22pm Ottawa, ON – Yesterday marked the beginning of the eighth year of incarceration for six of the seven members of the Bahá’í Faith leadership group in the…
Source: www.ibtimes.com By Lora Moftah @LoraMoftah [email protected] on May 15 2015 2:20 PM EDT Events are being planned around the world this week to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the arrest of Iran’s Baha’i religious leaders. Multiple pictures of the Baha’i…
Source: www.bahai.org.au Sydney, 14 May 2015 The first of seven Baha’i leaders to be unjustly imprisoned in 2008 was Mahvash Sabet, a poet whose thoughts and feelings have since inspired people the world over. While in her…
Source: www.bahai.org.au By Vargha Taefi (1) MELBOURNE, 15 MAY 2015 My mother, Fariba Kamalabadi, is an educational psychologist and is a warm, compassionate, spiritual and intelligent person. She is now serving a jail sentence of 20 years…
Source: www.farzanfaramarzi.coml Translation by Sen’s daily Samim Dokoohaki, a Bahai student of music at the Beyza campus of the Azad University, was expelled from the University on March 1, 2015 because of his religious beliefs. He…
Source: en.iranwire.com Thursday 14 May 2015 Natasha Bowler The Baha’i International Community (BIC) today launches a global campaign to raise awareness about the situation for Baha’is in Iran, and to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the unlawful…
Christians, Baha’is jailed despite election of the purportedly moderate president Source: freebeacon.com May 13, 2015 5:00 am BY: Daniel Wiser Iranian authorities have escalated their persecution of religious minorities since the election of President Hassan Rouhani despite…
Mansour Osanlou (1) is a trade union and human rights activist. He is a former leading personality of the Syndicate of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (2) (Vahed Company) who has been imprisoned on numerous…
Source: thehill.com May 11, 2015, 10:00 am By S. Rob Sobhani, Ph.D President Obama and his foreign policy team should be commended for trying to solve the difficult problem of Iran’s nuclear program. While…
Source: globalvoicesonline.org From top to bottom, the logos of Parsijoo, Yooz, and GorGor. Mixed by Amin Sabeti. This post was written by Small Media researcher Kyle Bowen, and is based on Small Media’s latest Iranian Internet Infrastructure and Policy (IIIP) report.…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency. Harassing the businesses of Baha’i citizens still persists in a number of cities in the Province of Kerman. According to the report by HRANA ‒ Human…
Source: news.nationalpost.com Irwin Cotler, National Post | May 4, 2015 Canadian parliamentarians from across the political spectrum have joined together to launch the fourth annual Iran Accountability Week in order to sound the alarm on the toxic convergence…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA- Navid Haghighi, a Baha’i from Arak who has been sentenced to three years of mandatory prison, plus an additional year with the possibility of parole, due to charges…
Source: www.bic.org #7Bahais7years On 14 May 2015, the Baha’i International Community will be coordinating a global campaign to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the arrest and imprisonment of the seven Iranian Baha’i leaders. The campaign…
