Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA– According to HRANA (the news agency of Human Rights Activists of Iran), on Friday, November 29, at least nine Baha’i citizens living in Baharestan, Isfahan, were arrested by…
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The Google Quantum Scientist Was Banned from Attending University in Iran
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti An Iranian Baha’i is part of the team behind Google’s newly-announced “discovery of the millennium” — the world’s first quantum computer. On 22 October, Google researchers announced that a computation that…
Fresh Crackdown on the Baha’is of Shiraz
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Intelligence agents raided the homes of 10 Baha’is on the morning of October 21, and arrested three of them. According to a report sent to IranWire, the raids took place simultaneously in Shiraz…
Iran Policy Brief: Increased Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i Community in 2019
Source: www.uscirf.gov By Scott Weiner, Policy Analyst Background The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic authoritarian state that enforces a unique interpretation of Ja’afri Shi’a Islam. Individual Iranians, however, ascribe to a wide range of…
A Journey to Religious Freedom and Education
Source: www.icmc.net Geneva, 1 October 2019 – Imagine having to pack a few of your most precious belongings in haste before fleeing overnight across international borders. Holakou Rahmanian, a former Iranian refugee now resettled in the United…
Trials of Sixty-Five Baha’is in Six Months
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch “The Appeals Court upheld my original sentence and that of five other Baha’is in absentia. The lawyer has asked us not to report this publicly for now. He…
Detention, Home Search, and Sealing of Abbas Taef’s Baha’i-Owned Business
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abbas Taef, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was detained on Friday by agents of the Office of Intelligence and taken to an unknown location. Officers…
In Iran, Religious Minority Children Are To Stay Silent If They Want To Study
Source: www.forbes.com Ewelina U. Ochab In early September 2019, Iranian news reported that the Iranian Minister for Education had ruled that if students mention that they belong to an officially unrecognized religion, like the Baha’i faith, this can…
Proposed Bill “Penalization of the Perverse Sects”: The Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Leap to Legalize Investigation of Beliefs
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Moin Khazaeli The news is short and shocking: Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly intends to review a bill, by virtue of which, if passed, the “investigation of beliefs” in its true sense will be legalized,…
The Iranian Judiciary’s Unjust and Discriminatory Tactics Against the Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Despite using a range of tactics, the Islamic Republic and its judiciary, as well as authorities before it, have not been able to destroy Iran’s Baha’i community. And now, writes Nasser Sedghi, public opinion is turning against…
Baha’is of Iran Suffer Most Egregious Forms of Persecution – UN Report
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—28 August 2019—The Baha’is of Iran—the largest non Muslim religious minority in the country—have suffered the “most egregious forms of repression, persecution and victimization” over the last 40 years, notes Javaid Rehman, the…
“I Hope My Father was Killed by a Firing Squad”
Source: iranwire.com As authorities continue to target and persecute Iran’s Baha’i community, the families of nine prominent Baha’is who were forcibly disappeared 39 years ago are still trying to find out what happened to their loved…
Baha’i Scholar and Translator Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Faruq Izadinia, a researcher, translator and Baha’i citizen residing in Tehran, has been sentenced to ten years in prison by the Tehran Revolutionary Court. The…
Baha’is Arrested in Karaj
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Authorities have arrested Baha’i citizens in Tehran province, the latest in a string of harassment of and discrimination against the country’s largest minority religion. A prolific and aggressive media campaign against Baha’is…
Baha’i Negin Tadrisi Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Source: persian.iranhumanrights.org Translation by Iran Press Watch An informed source has told the Campaign that Negin Tadrisi, a Baha’i resident of Isfahan, who was arrested in 2017 during the bicentenary celebration of the birth of the…
Prominent Iranian Activists Speak Out Against Councilman’s Imprisonment
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org A group of prominent political and civil rights activists in Iran has issued a statement condemning the imprisonment of a councilman after he publicly denounced the arrests of two citizens for their religious beliefs,…
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