05/19/2011: Community Against Denial of Higher Education: Ms. Mahvash Sabet and Ms. Fariba Kamalabadi, two Baha’i prisoners and members of the 7-member Baha’i leadership council of Iran known as the Yaran [“Friends”], were transferred from…
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05/19/2011: Community Against Denial of Higher Education: Ms. Mahvash Sabet and Ms. Fariba Kamalabadi, two Baha’i prisoners and members of the 7-member Baha’i leadership council of Iran known as the Yaran [“Friends”], were transferred from…
Mrs. Kamalabadi is one of the seven former Baha’i leaders who continues to languish in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on false and fabricated charges. She was arrested in May 2008. Several items of interest related…
Iran Press Watch is pleased to share the following beautifully chanted prayer in Persian by Mrs. Fariba Kamalabadi, one of the seven Baha’i prisoners in Tehran who were responsible for the administration of the Baha’i…
Source: news.gooya.com, by Reza Alamehzadeh Translation by Iran Press Watch I became familiar with the name of Ms. Fariba Kamalabadi1, before I became involved with the making of the Iranian Taboo documentary 2, when…
Source: www.uscirf.gov IRAN USCIRF–RECOMMENDED FOR COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN (CPC) KEY FINDINGS In 2023, religious freedom conditions in Iran remained extremely poor. Protests against mandatory hijab laws and other restrictions on freedom of religion or…
Source: narges.foundation Our differences in political views and beliefs have never, do not, and will never obstruct our support for human rights. Silence in the face of oppression only emboldens the regime, making its actions…
Source: www.uscirf.gov In 2023, authorities conducted individual and mass arrests of Baha’is across Iran, taking them to undisclosed locations and imposing excessively long prison sentences. Iranian security officials beat and brutalized Baha’is during raids and…
Source: www.hrw.org Summary Baha’is are the largest unrecognized religious minority in Iran. They have been the target of harsh, state-backed repression since their religion was established in the 19th century. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian…
Stuart Williams Source: www.yahoo.com A flattened patch of earth is all that remains of where the graves once stood –- evidence, Iran’s Bahais say, that their community is subjected to persecution even in death. Beneath…
Source: www.washingtontimes.com Women, ethnic minorities struggle for equal rights in Iran By Dr. Mitra Aliabouzar – Special to Higher Ground OPINION: A few days ago, I read an open letter from my former fellow inmate in Iran’s Evin…
Source: iranwire.com By ROGHAYEH REZAEI Prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and other Iranian activists marked International Human Rights Day with renewed calls for more freedoms, equality and justice in the country, despite the Islamic…
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Following the death of Afagh Khosravi Zand (Rahimian) (wife of one of the Baha’is executed in 1984), 14 female political prisoners in Evin expressed sympathy with her family…
Source: www.bic.org The Iranian government is using intensified and brutal new tactics to persecute the Baha’i religious minority in Iran, according to a new statement of the Baha’i International Community (BIC) released today, with a view to…
Source: twitter.com Translation By Iran Press Watch When the revolution happened, I was 26 years old. The principal of a school in the south of the capital gave me an order one day. I was…
Source: iranwire.com Mahvash Shahriari Sabet, a Baha’i woman serving a 10-year prison sentence at Tehran’s Evin Prison, wrote a poignant letter from the confines of her cell in which she calls on Iranians to not…
Source: www.barrons.com Iranian authorities have launched a new wave of arrests targeting members of the Bahai faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, representatives of the community said on Tuesday. Activists say Bahais, whose faith…