Source: en.iranwire.com By Natasha Schmidt, Amy Fehilly Prison authorities have released Baha’i leader Fariba Kamalabadi from prison on a temporary basis, IranWire has learned. Kamalabadi, who is serving a 10-year sentence for “insulting religious sanctities” and “propaganda against…
Source: bazdasht.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Bazdasht, 27 April 2016 is the second anniversary of the imprisonment of Nasim Bagheri. Mrs Nasim Bagheri was born in Tehran in 1983. She was arrested on…
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt David “Rabi” Torres, one-half of the artist duo Cyrcle, painted this “Mad in Iran” broken ruler in Harlem. New York, US The Not A Crime campaign is back in New York to paint a…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Delaram Akbari, a Baha’i citizen residing in Sari, a student of computer science at Ghodsieh University, was expelled from that university on January 4, 2016.…
Source: BahaiNews1 According to a “Bahainews” report, Sorush Shadabi of Karaj, who was detained after the arrest of three other Baha’is, is still in Evin prison. According to the informed “BahaiNews” sources, this Bahai citizen has been in solitary confinement…
Source: en.iranwire.com Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour Everything Azita Rafizadeh said ended with this question: “What will happen to Bashir if they take Peyman away to serve his sentence?” Her trembling voice showed the deep anxiety of a mother…
Source: BahaiNews1 Sarmad Shadabi, Tara Houshmand and Rouhie Safajoo have been released on bail after 20 days in Evin Prison in Tehran. Mr. Sarmad Shadabi’s bail was set at 200 million tumans ($66,120) while bail for…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Letter Comes To Light Three Years after Brutal Physical Abuse of Detained Baha’is Details of torture inflicted upon twelve Baha’is by interrogators three years ago at Amir Abad prison and detention centers in Iran’s Golestan…
Source: Human Rights Watch MARCH 17, 2016 To: Member States of the UN Human Rights Council Your Excellency, We, the undersigned human rights and civil society groups, write to you to call on your…
Source: en.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On Tuesday March 8, while most Iranians were preparing for Persian New Year festivities, authorities arrested four members of the Baha’i minority in Tehran, Karaj and Sari. Their names are Rouhie Safajoo, Sarmad…
Source: en.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Around 9 am the doorbell rings. The picture of a man in police uniform is on the intercom screen. “Open the door,” says the man. “I am from the police.” They open…
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch In the final days of the current year, in which Iranian families are preparing to welcome the New Year*, a Baha’i couple, Payman Kooshakbaghi and Azita…
Source: en.iranwire.com My 20 year-old sister, Rouhie Safajoo, took part in the Iranian Universities’ Entrance Exam in 2014, but test results were never released to her. She was told to go to the National Testing Organization,…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, on the occasion of the passing of one of the Yaran’s lawyers, Dr. Hadi Esmailzadeh, a bouquet of flowers and a letter were sent to his…
Source: www.pen-international.org ‘Beyond those gates, another world, another race, a people poisoned and oppressed by woe; they stared wearily at us, the prisoners we faced, with sunken eyes, lack-lustre, circled with sorrow’ – extract from ‘From…
Source: www.theguardian.com Saeed Kamali Dehghan Friday 4 March 2016 02.00 EST After the success of moderates in the polls, hopes grow that Rouhani will follow his nuclear deal efforts by tackling issues including the high number of executions…
