Source: http://www.irangreenvoice.com/article/2014/jun/12/44119 Translation by Iran Press Watch The Green Freedom Call Date: June 12, 2014 In a letter to Iran’s intellectuals from Rajai-Shahr Prison, a group of professors, managers and associates of the Baha’i Institute for…
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On Three Continents Prominent Muslims Denounce Persecution of Iran’s Baha’is, Call for Religious Coexistence
Source: Bahai World News Service, news.bahai.org/story/1009 17 June 2014 PARIS — In the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, prominent Muslims have spoken out recently against the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, denouncing the religious intolerance…
Threatening Anti-Baha’i Posters Distributed in Yazd, Iran
Source: Bahai World News Service, http://news.bahai.org/story/1010 18 June 2014 GENEVA — A highly inflammatory and threatening flier calling Baha’is “godless” was distributed in the city of Yazd, Iran, last week on the eve of an important…
Susan Tebyaniyan’s Irregular Detention Continues
Source: HRANA, goo.gl/2UbmpM Translation from Sen’s Daily, goo.gl/zOGIM4 Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested 17 days ago in her home, and has been held since then, without clarification of her status, in Semnan’s…
A Heart-Felt Note from a Baha’i Youth from Tabriz, Iran
Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/5y8K90 Translation by Iran Press Watch (Regarding the issues of educational and economic discrimination, and even the right of burial) Saturday June 14, 2014 I am a Baha’i citizen residing in Tabriz…
An Ayatollah in Iran Takes an Unorthodox Step in Support of Baha’is
[www.internationalpolicydigest.org] A few weeks ago, a senior clergyman in Iran, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi Tehrani, did the unthinkable. He joined a gathering of human rights activists commemorating the sixth anniversary of the incarceration of the seven-person leadership group of…
Opinion: Canada Should Aid Iranian Minorities
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FPI Fact Sheet: Iran’s Human Rights Violations under Rouhani
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A Doctor Remembers His Days in Prison With Iran’s Unjustly Persecuted Baha’is
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Baha’i Holocaust: Why, How, and To What Extent?
[khodnevis.org] 05 June 2014, by Majid Mohammadi After three decades of atrocities against Baha’is, Khamenei put an official government stamp on this oppression: “All believers should confront the trickeries of the misguided Baha’i sect……
Rouhani’s Human Rights Record Shows No Improvement
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For the Bahá’ís Imprisoned in Iran, Freedom and Human Rights Seem Remote
[newstatesman.com] by Nazila Ghanea Seven Bahá’ís – members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, persecuted by the government for decades – have now spent six years in prison for practising their religion. It has been…
Rouhani Is No ‘Moderate’ When It Comes to Human Rights
[jpost.com] A number of human rights abuses in Iran have continued unabated – or have even intensified – under Rouhani’s “moderate” presidency. The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded…
In the Arab World, a New Discourse on Religious Coexistence Takes Root
[news.bahai.org] MANAMA, Bahrain — Throughout the Arab world, a new discussion on how to live peacefully side by side with the followers of all religions has begun to take shape. This discourse is inspired partly by the…
Freed Iranian Rights Lawyer: ‘I’ve a Bad Feeling about the Women I Left Behind’
[theguardian.com] The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His mother, the leading Iranian human…
Susan Tebyanian Arrested in Semnan
[hra-news.org] Susan Tebyanian, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested in her home on the evening of May 31st. Agents from the Ministry of Intelligence searched her home, seized a computer and religious books and images,…