The following report was posted on UN News Service: 3 January 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his great concern over reports that Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin…
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Unfounded Accusations Against the Baha’is!
Editor’s Note: The following essay was contributed by one of the readers of Iran Press Watch and is published as an original piece. Iran Press Watch greatly welcomes such contributions by our informed readers on…
Update on the Seven Leading Baha'is Jailed in Iran
The following report was posted by Iran Press News on Saturday, 3 January 2009: Seven leading Baha’is in Iran, namely Mahvash Sabet, Fariba Kamalabadi, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Vahid Tizfahm, Jamaloddin Khanjani and Behrouz Tavakkoli,…
My Father Is Imprisoned!
Editor’s Note: The following is a translation of an interview conducted by Ardavan Roozbeh, a reporter for Radio Zamaaneh, with Faris Ataian, whose father, Masoud Ataian, is one of the Baha’is illegally abducted and imprisoned…
Life for Me was Slow Death!
By Kamal Yazdan-Panah Editor’s Note: The following is a translation by Iran Press Watch of a moving autobiography posted on the Baha’i World News Service (BWNS) online site. There are 16 associated documents, which are…
Attacks on Home and Office of Shirin Ebadi
Editor’s Note: Though the wave of attacks on the office and home of Ms. Ebadi is not directly related to the Baha’i community, however as this unfortunate turn of event represents a clear violation of…
A Book-dealer Arrested in Arak Accused of Being Baha'i
The following news report was posted in Persian on Peyke Iran and Pezchvake Iran online sites: According to reports received at our office, a cultural activist in Arak by the name of Kamran Jamshidi, the…
Expelled from School: The Case of Sina Haghighi
Editor’s Note: Sina Haghighi was a third year student in Kashan’s secondary school – the equivalent of the ninth grade in the West. The principle of the school summoned Sina on Tuesday, 2 December 2008,…
The Trial of Suhrab Habibi
Editor’s Note: On 14 June 1981, seven members of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hamadan – the body responsible for Baha’i activities in that locality – were executed by firing squad. These…
Detention of Two Baha’is: Fear for Their Safety
Editor’s Note: The following urgent appeal was posted on Wednesday, 24 December 2008, by Iranian Minorities Human Right Organization (IMHRO). To the best of our knowledge at Iran Press Watch, the Baha’i institutions have not…
Defense of Human Rights Will Not Stop
By Maryam Kashani (Reporter for Rooz online) Following the closure of the offices of the Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Tehran by government agents, Rooz spoke with Narges Mohammadi, the spokesperson for…
Baha'is Call for Reopening of Human Rights Center in Iran
GENEVA, 23 December (BWNS)- The Baha’i International Community today expressed grave concern over the closing by the Iranian government of Shirin Ebadi’s Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran and called for its reopening. “The…
Baha’is Under Widespread Attack in Semnan
“I have been ordered to do so. Please believe me.” “Please pardon what I’m doing.” These are what agents of the Ministry of Intelligence sometimes say when they attack Baha’i homes – this time, a…
Iran Shuts Office of Nobel Winner's Rights Group
By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer Iranian authorities shut down the office of a human rights group led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Sunday as the group was preparing to honor a…
US Department of State on UN General Assembly calls on Iran to meet Human Rights obligations
The following is the text of the Press Statement published by Sean McCormack, Spokesman for the US Department of State in Washington, DC, and dated December 19, 2008: The United States welcomes UN General Assembly…
Fired from Work for Being Baha'i
Human Rights Activists of Iran has published the following letter of a Baha’i employed by Iran National Broadcasting Agency (which is a state-run public broadcasting and presently is known as Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting,…
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