[roozonline] Monday, March 7th 2014- Farvardin 18th 1393 Denial of the existence of the Prisoners and the Student Banned from Higher Education Baha’is in Iran are not discriminated against! By Niusha Saremi The head…
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Maziar Malaki, a Bahai citizen and student majoring in manufacturing machinery, has been expelled from the University of Birjand*
[HRANA] According to reporters from HRANA, the news organization of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Maziar Malaki, a Baha’i citizen from Birjand and a student in manufacturing machinery, was summoned by university security and asked…
No information regarding the Status of Nika Kholousi, an Iranian Baha’i Prisoner
[HRANA, Wednesday, April 9, 2014] For the last ten days, there has been no sign of whereabouts of Nika Kholousi, a Baha’i citizen of Iran. According to Human Right Activists News Agency (HRANA), there has…
Bahá’ís: “Second-Class Citizens” in Iran
Source: www.bbc.co.uk Translation by Iran Press Watch Niki Mahjoub [Originally published by BBC Persian on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 16:59 GMT] One day in the middle of class, our religion teacher asked, “Children, have you…
Official Makes Rare Admission of Bahá’ís Equal Rights in Domestic Media
[International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran] In a rare statement to the Iranian media on April 6, 2014, Javad Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, admitted Baha’is in Iran are entitled…
Bishop of Coventry praises “courageous” support for Iranian Bahá’í community
09 April 2014 The Bishop of Coventry, Dr Christopher Cocksworth *, has described as a ‘courageous step’, the decision by a prominent Muslim cleric in Iran to gift to the Bahá’í community an important religious…
Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Judicial System of Iran: We don’t have conflicts with Baha’is merely because someone is a Baha’i
[digarban] 20 Farvardin, 1393 – April 9, 2014 Sadeq Larijani*, Head of the Judicial System of Iran: We don’t have conflicts with Baha’is merely because someone is a Baha’i Sadeghi Larijani, Head of the Judicial…
Javad Larijani: People are not deprived of education or put on trial solely because of being Baha’is
[BBC Persian] Mohammad Javad Larijani*, the secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights, has rejected “any form of discrimination and violation of rights, due to being a Baha’i” in Iran, and said that people…
Trial of 15 Bahai’s charged with propaganda against the regime in Shiraz
[ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency)] The lawyer for the 15 Baha’is said that the trial of her clients charged with propaganda against the regime will take place in the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz. Giti Pourfazel announced…
In an unprecedented symbolic act senior cleric calls for religious co-existence in Iran
[Bahá’í World News Service] 7 April 2014 NEW YORK — In a symbolic and unprecedented move, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a prominent Muslim cleric in Iran, announced today that he has gifted to the Baha’is of the world…
The verdict against two sisters residing in Mashhad has been carried out
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Harana News Agency – On the Sunday morning of March 30th 2014, intelligence officers arrested two Baha’i residents of Mashhad by the names of Nava Kholousi and Nika…
Seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders send letter to President Rouhani
[news.bahai.org, 16 Nov 2013] NEW YORK — The seven imprisoned Iranian Baha’i leaders have written a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, commenting on his proposed “Charter of Citizen’s Rights.” During his campaign for election earlier…
The Iranian Charter of Citizens’ Rights
[ejiltalk.org, 10 Dec 2013] Nazila Ghanea 100 days into his presidency, Iranian President Hassan Rohani delivered a partial result on the nuclear issue (see EJIL:Talk! discussion by Dan Joyner)and released his draft Charter of Citizens’ Rights (henceforth…
Khamenei Controls Massive Financial Empire Built on Property Seizures
Source: www.reuters.com Editor’s note: Below are excerpts on confiscation of Baha’i properties from a report by Reuters that investigates how Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, built his financial empire. Read the report in its entirety here. _____ Some of…
Iran's Enduring Legacy of Violence and Denial
[huffingtonpost.ca, 1 Oct 2013] Payam Akhavan, Associate Professor, McGill University Elementary psychology teaches us that without confronting repressed memories of past trauma, a person’s future health and happiness is seriously compromised. It is common knowledge,…
BAHA’IS AND THE EIGHT-YEAR WAR: Sharing the suffering, denied the celebration
[Persian BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/persian, 25 Sep 2013] Sepehr Atefi Journalist 3 Mehr 1392 (25 September 2013) 31 Shahrivar 1359 (22 September 1980) was the beginning of a bitter chapter in Iran’s history; a chapter that lasted…
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