Source: news.bahai.org/story/1016 4 September 2014 GENEVA — Three high-level United Nations human rights experts today called on Iran to halt the ongoing destruction of a historic Baha’i cemetery in Shiraz, Iran, saying the action is an…
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Execution of the Bahais of Hamadan: Zhinous’s Memories of the Seven Martyrs
Source: iranwire.com/features/6483/ Translation by Iran Press Watch Ayda Ghajar September 2014 Zhinous Nemat Mahmoudi (1), a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iran, was tried and convicted by a secret court without…
Religious Intolerance and Critical Thinking
Source: mehdikhalaji.com/archives/1103 Translation by Iran Press Watch Mehdi Khalaji 30 August, 2014 Below is the full text of my talk at the Twenty Forth Conference of the Association of Friends of Persian Culture, on twenty ninth…
Three of the Four Detainees for Whom Bail Was Set Have Not Been Released as the Bail Is Excessive
On September 3, Branch 4 of the court at Evin Prison set bail for three Bahais arrested in Tehran: Babak Mobasher, Nasr Arshi Moqaddam, and Ataollah Ashrafi. The family of the three detainees were…
Conversation with Fereydun Vahman: “The revolution was a golden opportunity for Hojjatieh”
Source: Iranwire, http://iranwire.com/features/6488/ Translation by Iran Press Watch Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 Ida Ghajar On June 13, 1981, the phones rang in several homes in Hamadan at 7 o’clock in the morning. The phone calls…
Bahai Student Expelled from University in Miandoab
Source: PCED (facebook group) http://goo.gl/Ljav7L Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25E Yalda Na’imeyan, a student at the Payam-e Nur University in Miandoab, has been expelled from the university after five semesters of study because of her Bahai…
Heretics: Iran’s Religious Minorities
Source: http://www.smallmedia.org.uk/heretics/ “At best, Iran’s religious minority communities are reduced to second-class citizenship; at worst, they are imprisoned, exiled, or sentenced to death. Iran’s Jews, Zoroastrians, Armenian Christians, Baha’is, Evangelical Christians, and Sunni and Sufi Muslims…
UN Human Rights Experts Urge Iran to Protect Bahá’í Cemetery in Shiraz
Source: United Nations Human Rights, http://goo.gl/zqsmbF GENEVA (4 September 2014) – Three United Nations experts on human rights in Iran , freedom of religion, and minority issues have today renewed an appeal to the Government of…
Special Conditions for Allowing Bahai Burials in Semnan
Source: tinyurl.com/ms28bu5 Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25h The recent burial of a Bahai in Semnan, in the section of the cemetery reserved for Baha’is, has revealed that new rules have been drawn up. The family…
One Arrest in Semnan
Source: http://goo.gl/uTb1bV Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-252 Noushadhar Khanjani, a Bahai from Semnan who was visiting family in Semnan, was arrested by security forces this morning. He has been interviewed by the Ministry of Intelligence several…
Farhad Eqbali Begins 5-Year Sentence in Gorgan
Source: http://goo.gl/DxmjDr Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25n Farhad Eqbali, a Bahai resident of Gorgan, reported to prison on August 27 to begin serving his 5-year sentence. Mr. Eqbali was one of about twenty Bahais, and some…
Two Arrests in Shiraz
Source: hra-news, http://tinyurl.com/mznz2g7, http://tinyurl.com/kn9wn6p Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25s On the morning of September 1, security forces arrested Mr. Shahram Mansour at his home, and transferred him to the Ministry of Intelligence’s Facility 100 in Shiraz. They also…
Expulsion of a Member of the National Martial Arts Team and Head of the Jujutsu Association of Kermanshah Province Because of Conversion to the Baha’i Faith
Source: The Voice of Iranian Christians, http://goo.gl/iNqBu6 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to reports from the human rights activist group, the Voice of the Iranian Christian News Agency, Hamzeh Raziany, a former member of the…
A Letter from Fariborz Baghi, A Convicted Baha’i
Source: HRANA News Agency, http://goo.gl/dvv8Tc Translation by Iran Press Watch August 6, 2014 A Letter from Fariborz Baghi, A Convicted Baha’i My name is Fariborz Baghi. I am a resident of Yazd, a city in southern Iran.…
Violation of Baha’i Rights Continues, Ranging from the Destruction of Cemeteries to University Entrance Exams Not Being Accepted
Source: http://taghato.net/article/7659 Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: August 9, 2014 Taghato: Human Rights sources report the restart of the destruction of the old Baha’i cemetery in Shiraz and the arrest of four Baha’i citizens in…
Increase in Arrests Highlights Continuing Persecution of Baha’is in Iran
Source: Bahai World News Service, http://news.bahai.org/story/1015 19 August 2014 GENEVA — The arrest last week of five Baha’is in Tehran signals a rising tide of detainments and imprisonments of Baha’is in Iran in recent months. Since June,…
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