Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency: The Baha’i Foad Khanjani has been released from Rajai Shahr prison, as he had served his entire sentence. According to the report of Human Rights Activists…
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Letter from Shabnam Tolouie to Mohammad Javad Larijani
Source: iranwire.com By Shabnam Tolouie 1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Wednesday 16 April 2014 Mr. Mohammad Javad Larijani, Rahmatollah son of Mirza Asadollah, was born in the year 1902. I remember this because he…
Arrest of a Baha’i Citizen in Tehran
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report by the Baha’i News Agency and informed sources, Shahram Najaf Tomarai – a Baha’i citizen residing in Tehran – was arrested this morning.…
Shahram Chinian, Baha’i Citizen, Freed from Prison at the End of His Sentence
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Report from the “No to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’i Citizens” campaign: Shahram Chinian, a Baha’i citizen, after completing his five year imprisonment sentence, has been freed from…
Fifteen Baha’is Arrested by Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org In a fresh crackdown on Iran’s Baha’i community, one of the most persecuted religious minorities in Iran, 15 followers of the faith were simultaneously arrested in Tehran, Isfahan, and Mashhad on November 15, 2015,…
At the UN, Religious Minorities Describe Day-To-Day Persecution in Iran
Source: www.bic.org UNITED NATIONS—4 November 2015—Growing up in Iran, Naeim Tavakkoli recalls being forced to sit on the floor in school to dry out on rainy days so that the “unclean” water he shed as a…
Susan Tebyaniyan Released From Prison at the End of Her Sentence
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan who has been serving a one-year sentence in Isfahan prison, was released from prison on November 2. She was charged with propaganda against the…
BIHE Instructor Released From Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Amanollah Mostaghim one of the imprisoned staff members of the Bahai Open University (BIHE) in Iran, was released from Raja’i Shahr prison today. He was sentenced to five years in…
A Letter From the Heart of Mozhdeh Fahandezh to Her Husband in Prison
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch (…. now is the 147th time……) My dear Farhad, I am a traveller…., a wayfarer who, with loads of love, is setting forth every week from Gorgan to Karaj;…
An Assembly Executed
Source: aasoo.org This film is shortened video of a trial held in 1981 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court at Evin Prison in Iran. It is the main segment of the trial, held in 1981, of seven…
Imprisoned BIHE Instructor Has Been Denied the Right to a Furlough
Source: hra-news.org October 6, 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Nasim Bagheri, one of the instructors at the Baha’i online university (BIHE), who has been imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin…
The Spiritual Assembly that Vanished
Source: bbc.com/persian Sepehr Atefi 11 October 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch On 11 November 1979, Dr. Alimorad Davoodi, secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the Baha’is of Iran, and professor of philosophy…
In a Few Days We’re Going to Jail Because We’re Baha’is
Source: en.iranwire.com Wednesday 14 October 2015 Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour Two teachers face long prison sentences for educating Baha’is, who are banned from pursuing further education in Iran. After repeated harassment and intimidation, married couple Azita Rafizadeh and Peyman…
Transfer of Vahed Kholoosi to Section 4 of Rajai Shahr Prison
Source: hra-news.org September 29, 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today at noon, Vahed Kholoosi, a civil rights activist and an expelled Baha’i student, was transferred to Hall 12 of Section…
Ask the Iranians About Their Baha’i Citizens
Source: medium.com By Maziar Bahari The Iranian government has a choice to make when President Hassan Rouhani visits New York this month: It can either remain a backward regime led by fundamentalist clerics or it can…
NYC Street Art Makes Statement for Human Rights in Iran
Source: bigstory.ap.org NEW YORK (AP) — A woman in a head scarf gazes piercingly from the side of a Brooklyn brownstone. A flock of spray-painted birds breaks free from shackles on a Manhattan building. A Harlem…
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