(RAHANA 13 March 2011) Zohreh Tabyanian, Pouya Tabyanian, Taraneh Ehsani and Elham Motoarefi are the 4 Baha’i citizens arrested by the Semnan security forces.
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(RAHANA 13 March 2011) Zohreh Tabyanian, Pouya Tabyanian, Taraneh Ehsani and Elham Motoarefi are the 4 Baha’i citizens arrested by the Semnan security forces.
(RAHANA 15 March 2011) Yesterday, Houshang Fanaian was arrested by the security authorities and transferred to the Intelligence Ministry detention center.
(RAHANA 16 March 2011) Zhinous Nourani, a Baha’i resident of Semnan, was arrested by the security forces yesterday. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, there has been no report as to her whereabouts.
(BWNS, 24 March 2011) GENEVA — For the first time since its creation five years ago, the UN Human Rights Council has appointed a special investigator to monitor Iran’s compliance with international human rights standards.
The new year in the Baha’i calendar is named Naw-Ruz, meaning “New Day” – the first day of Spring in the Northern hemisphere. Baha’is in more than 200 countries and territories around the world celebrate…
New Delhi, 14 March, 2011 — The global support for Iran’s seven jailed Baha’i leaders is continuing as one of the prisoners begins her fourth year in detention. Mahvash Sabet – a schoolteacher and mother…
10 March 2011. The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the European Union’s approach to Iran, deploring “the fact that, contrary to the Constitution, members of religious minorities endure discrimination in housing, education and official jobs,…
International reactions to the situation of the Baba’is in Iran has been heartwarming for the Bahais all around the world. (see BWNS for more details). One recent reaction is a letter sent by the Dutch…
(www.whitehouse.gov 21 March 2011) In his Naw-Ruz message to Iran, President Obama urged the Islamic Republic Government of Iran to stop the open persecution of the Baha’is in Iran for the sole practice of their…
Saturday 12th March Dear Mr. Khanjani, I was deeply saddened to hear of Mrs Ashraf Khanjani’s passing. Please accept my deepest condolences and prayers for you, for your family and for your friends at this…
HRANA News Agency – While more than two months have passed since the CEO and five employees of Achilandoor Company were detained by IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps] intelligence officers, in the last few days, all Baha’i employees and workers of this company in the cities of Tehran and Mashhad have been fired following an order issued by the Intelligence Office of IRGC.
(BWNS 15 March 2011) GENEVA — Iranian authorities have arrested a number of Baha’is who provided education to children in a region devastated by an earthquake seven years ago. The Baha’i International Community has so far been…
TEHRAN (AFP) – A number of Bahais who were “promoting their faith in kindergartens” have been arrested, a prosecutor in the southern city of Bam was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying on Saturday.
“A number of Bahais who were promoting their programmes under the guise of kindergartens in Bam, Kerman and Tehran were arrested by intelligence agents after nine months of intelligence work,” prosecutor Mohammad Reza Sanjari said.
March 15, 2011 issue of the Wall Street Journal, By ROXANA SABERI (also see BBC Profile here) March 5 marked the third anniversary of the arrest of Mahvash Sabet, one of my former cellmates in Iran’s…
Tehran Bureau of PBS reports on the terrible conditions for women at Rajael Shahr Prison where four Baha’i women are also in prison.
[This report uses the word “proselytising”, and therefore a clarifying note: the Baha’is, as a matter of course, share the teachings of the Baha’i Faith with everyone without prejudice. Nevertheless, proselytising is strictly prohibited. Bahai’s…