Source: National Review Online, http://goo.gl/OKkVmZ We must prioritize protecting religious minorities under threat. By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Earlier this year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 15th annual report on the…
Source: http://goo.gl/Z0TLWv HRANA News Agency – Manuchher Kholousi, a Bahai from Mashhad, was tried on July 8. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he was charged with “acting against national security…
Source: Alliance for Rights of All Minorities-ARAM Officials from Ministry of Intelligence in Mashhad have arrested Saghi Fadaee from her private residence on Tuesday, July 8. No further information has been provided on the whereabouts and…
Source: http://iranglobal.info/node/35699 Translation by Iran Press Watch IRANGLOBAL Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Safa Rasti (Shintoo) In Iran, the rights of Baha’is are ignored in many different ways. Baha’is are even executed based on fabricated crimes.…
Source: http://www.radiozamaneh.com/158934 Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-226 The revolutionary court in Urumiyyeh, in Iran’s Azerbaijan province, has handed down sentences ranging from six months to six years for seven Bahá’ís. Mr. Fardin A’za’i (Aghsani) and Mrs. Farahnaz…
Source: www.tavaana.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Thirty-one years ago today, Mona Mahmudnezhad, only 17 years old, was executed, along with nine other Bahá’í women at the Abdullah Mesgar Garrison (Shiraz Chogan Circle). At the time…
Source: http://goo.gl/9046Kb HRANA News Agency – Shamim Ruhani, a Bahai from Ahvaz (a city in the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates), has been sentenced to one year in prison followed by banishment from the province…
Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/6ub5VH Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-21V Two Bahais were arrested by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence in their homes in Yazd this morning. Their names are Ms. Tannaz Mohammedi and Mr. Iraj…
Source: http://goo.gl/uGsABK By GEMMA KHAICY June 22, 2014, 8 p.m. The excavation of a cemetery in Iran has angered Woonona’s Khosrow Kouhbor, whose family and friends have been buried at the site. The Bahá’í man said he…
Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/gT4qSq Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-21Q Shomeis Mohajer, a Bahai from Tehran, has reported to Evin Prison in Tehran to begin serving her one-year sentence. She was one of almost 20 Bahais who were arrested…
Source: HRANA, http://tinyurl.com/nkem2u3 Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-21M Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab, a Tehran Bahai serving an 8-year sentence, has been moved to solitary confinement in Raja’i Shahr prison. On May 28 HRANA reported that he had…
As Mr. Sa’id Reza’i (1) told a friend of his in a phone conversation, during the early period of the arrest of the YARAN, when they were going through interrogations and had a difficult time, one…
Mr. Reza’i (1) told his friend that he wrote this poem for the friends who take part in Study Circles outside Iran. He explained the imagery in the poem as follows: the Baha’is of the…
Source:HRANA, http://goo.gl/TUPblw Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://goo.gl/W2OEyn Leva Khanjani, a Bahai excluded from tertiary education, has been freed from Evin prison after serving most of a two-year sentence. She was arrested on January 3, 2010, along…
Source: http://www.payvand.com/news/14/jun/1152.html By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL Majzooban.org, a website dedicated to news and information about the Gonabadi dervishes in Iran, has been blocked more than 40 times since its launch in 2007. Iranian authorities have also…
Source: http://goo.gl/WZbguJ Why So Many Bahá’í? By Paul Bowers @ccpnews A map purporting to show the second-largest religion in each state appeared on the Washington Post‘s GovBeat blog early this month, and it made a surprising claim: Of all 50…
