Source: www.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch More than one month after the arrest of three young Baha’is – Ardeshir Fanaeian (30 years old), Behnam Eskandarian (25 years old) and Yalda Firoozian (20 years…
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Shirin Ebadi’s Protest to the Death Sentence for Hamed bin Haydara and to His Attorneys Being Called Apostates by Yemeni Houthis
Source: Centre for Supporters of Human Rights Translation by Iran Press Watch In a letter addressed to the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, attorney and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi,…
Baha’is in Small Towns Also Face Persecution — It’s Not Just About Tehran
Source: www.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iranian activists have urged the media and campaigners to pay more attention to human rights violations against Baha’is in provincial areas of Iran, claiming that they give unequal weight to violations taking…
22 Baha’is Began New Year in Prison
Source: www.iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kian Sabeti The last month of the Persian year 1397 (corresponding to 2018-2019 in the Gregorian calendar) was an eventful month for Baha’i prisoners. On one hand, some of…
Incarceration, Unemployment and Expulsion from University, All for Being Baha’i
Source: www.iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kian Sabeti They were prevented from visiting each other for five months. Foujan is 20 years old and Milad 31 years old. They were both arrested for being Baha’is…
Forty Years of State Lies: RSF Unveils Leaked Iranian Justice File
Source: rsf.org No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed today on the basis of information in…
Five Baha’is From Shiraz Sentenced to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 17 of the Fars Province Appeals Court sentenced five Baha’is from Shiraz to 30 months imprisonment. The citizens had previously been sentenced in absentia…
Appeals Court; Soheil Haghdoost, Baha’I from Qaemshahr, Sentenced to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 28 of the Mazandaran Provincial Appeals Court sentenced Soheil Haghdoost, a Baha’i from Qaemshahr, to four months’ of prison. On April 18, 2018, the…
Shayan Manavi, Baha’i Student, Expelled from University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shayan Manavi, a third semester student in civil engineering at Islamic Azad University in the City of Qods, was expelled from the university and…
Appeals Court of Yazd Province Sentences Two Baha’is to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 11 of the Court of Appeals in Yazd Province has sentenced two Baha’i citizens of that city, Mehran Bandi Amirabadi and Mehran Islami Amirabadi,…
Human Rights Violations in Iran: Four Baha’i Citizens in Isfahan Sentenced to Combined 10 Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Last May, Branch 23 of the Appeals Court of Isfahan Province upheld the sentencing of four Baha’i citizens for combined total of 10 years imprisonment. …
Bahá’í-Owned Business Sealed by Authorities in Birjand
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On the morning of Saturday 5 January 2019, the business of Farshid Deimi, a Bahá’í citizen of Birjand, was sealed by order of judiciary officials.…
Note of Saeed Dehghan, Lawyer for Baha’i Citizens in Isfahan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watcg HRANA News Agency – Four Baha’i residents of Isfahan were sentenced in May this year by the appeals court of Isfahan province to 10 years imprisonment. These citizens were arrested on Saturday by security…
Top Student Expelled for Being Baha’i
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News- Sama Zazifi, a student majoring in architecture at the University of Shahriar, was expelled for being a Baha’i. Despite depriving Baha’is from attending universities by the…
New Wave of Oppression Against Baha’is, Yekta Fahandezh Sadi Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Yekta Fahandezh Sadi, Bahá’í resident of Shiraz, was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment after retrial by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. According…
Member of Iran’s Bahai Community Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Source: kayhanlife.com Translated from Persian by Fardine Hamidi On December 16, a Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced Yekta Fahandezh-Saadi, a member of the Bahai community in Shiraz, capital of the southern province of Fars, to 11 years…
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