Source: www.iranwire.com By SALEEM VAILLANCOURT Fariba Kamalabadi, one of seven former members of an ad hoc leadership group for the Baha’is in Iran, was released from Evin Prison today after completing a 10-year prison sentence. Her release…
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The Launch of the Period of Bahá’í Killings During the Islamic Revolution
Source: www.akhbar-rooz.com By Soheila Vahdati Translation by Iran Press Watch The First Day The Period of Bahá’í Killings began during the Islamic Revolution, when, on August 14, 1978, Ziaullah Haghighat was deliberately run down by motorcycle. …
Iranian Baha’i Singer Facing Prison Time After European Concert Tour
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org After being repeatedly interrogated while spending a month in solitary confinement, Iranian singer Behnam Rohani-Fard was released on 100 million tomans bail (approximately $30,156 USD) from Tehran’s Evin Prison on October 3, 2017. Rohani-Fard, a member of…
Closure of Business and Detention of Baha’i Citizen, Kamran Shahidi
Source: adian.bashariyat.org Translation by Iran Press Watch September 30, 2017, by the Committee for the Defense of the Rights of All Religious Individuals Kamran Shahidi, a Baha’i living in Tehran, was arrested on Monday, September 25,…
Freed Iranian Baha’i Leader Mahvash Sabet Describes Unjust Trial, Prison Conditions
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org “We never betrayed our country and never will.” Mahvash Sabet, a leader of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i faith who was released from Evin Prison on September 18, 2017 after completing a 10-year sentence, said she was convicted of espionage…
Beyond Prison Walls: Mahvash Sabet Speaks with France Medias Monde
Source: fa.rfi.fr Editor’s note: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani and Shahram Yazdani translated the poems and Iran Press Watch translated the rest. Mahvash Sabet, a member of the Baha’i Community of Iran, who has been in prison due to her…
Kamal Kashani and Farahmand Sanaei, Baha’i Prisoners Released after 5 Years
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Kamal Kashani and Farahmand Sanaei, two Baha’i religious prisoners from Gorgan, were released from Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, on 22 September 2017, after completing…
More than 70 Iranian Baha’is Denied University In September
Source: en.radiofarda.com By Mahtab Vahidi Rad More than 70 Baha’i students have reportedly been denied entry to universities in Iran despite successfully passing the national admissions tests. According to some sources, the number of Baha’is who…
An Exclusive Interview With The Freed Baha’i Leader
Source: iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR Mahvash Sabet, one of seven members of the former leadership group for Iran’s Baha’i community, was released on the afternoon of Monday, September 18 after serving 10 years in prison. Sabet and six…
Baha’i Musician Arrested in Tehran
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Behnam Rouhanifard, an Iranian Baha’i and singer-composer from Tehran, has been arrested by security forces. According to a human rights watchdog in Iran, Mr. Rouhanifard was arrested on 03…
Keyvan Rahimian, BIHE Professor, Released After Five Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from HRANA, the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran, on Friday, August 25, 2017, Keyvan Rahimian, professor of the Baha’i Institution of Higher Education…
Crisis in Rajai Shahr Prison; letter of Azita Rafizadeh to her son
Source: www.hra-news.org Translations by Iran Press Watch Do Decisionmakers Think About Damages to Innocent Children of Prisoners? HRANA News Agency – The transfer three weeks ago of political prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj to…
Iran: Caught in a Web of Repression: Iran’s Human Rights Defenders Under Attack
Source: www.amnesty.org The Iranian authorities are intensifying their crackdown against human rights defenders, who have already been working under suffocating levels of repression. Human rights defenders are routinely portrayed in official statements and court verdicts as…
Iran Tried To Deny Their Education, So These Baha’is Went Underground
Source: www.buzzfeed.com Canadian universities are now recognizing degrees from an underground school for the religious minority. Anisa Rawhani At each ring of his phone, Shakib Nasrullah and his family jumped. The caller ID was blocked, but…
174 Years of Constructive Resilience
A living story of: “174 YEARS of CONSTRUCTIVE RESILIENCE” That will touch your heart and soul. By: Nasser Sedghi [Edited by: Anton Clark, Jen Cowley and Dr Taeed Quddusi] This article is intended to explore…
Human Rights Violator: Judge Mohammad Moghiseh
Source: www.justice4iran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch First & Last Name: Mohammad Moghiseh (Aliases: Haj Nasser and Naserian)[i] Biography: Mohammad Moghiseh was born in Sabzevar in Razavi Khorasan Province in Northeastern Iran. He has a seminary…
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