[On Tuesday, 14 October 2008, Mrs. Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate and renowned lawyer for human and civil rights, spoke at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. One of the kind Baha’i readers of…
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Attack on the Baha’i Faith at a Conference on the History of Iran and the British Empire
The report below is in two parts: (1) extracts from remarks at a recent conference in Tehran provided in translation, and (2) a response from the perspective of the present writer against the accusations stated…
Song by Friends in Iran
Some Friends in Iran have sent us this song, available for download. The words are from a Baha’i addressing his persecutors. Innovative and touching. Listen to the Song: Download the MP3 file here.
The Case of Arash Shahsavandi: Expelled from University for Being Baha'i
[On Monday, 13 October 2008, the well-regarded organization “Human Rights Activists of Iran” published the following account by Arash Shahsavandi, a Baha’i student expelled from his university on account of his religion: http://www.hrairan.com/Archive_87/1114.html. The report…
Mehran Bandi: Imprisoned for Being Baha’i
[The Tehran-based prestigious organization “Human Rights Activists in Iran” just published an update on Mr. Mehran Bandi (http://hrairan.com/Archive_87/1110.html) on Sunday, 12 October 2008, which is offered below in translation. Previously on this site, the imprisonment…
Highest Ranking Student Barred for Being Baha’i
[On Monday, 6 October 2008, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists in Iran published the following letter by a Baha’i student under file number 87-1073: http://www.hrairan.com/Archive_87/1095.html. This letter is offered below in translation. Ahang Rabbani.]…
New Threats Against the Baha’is of Iran
[The following report was filed by Hasan Zerehi, who is the editor-in-chief of Shahrvand, a Persian weekly published in Toronto, Canada. This essay (report no. 1197) was posted on Wednesday, 1 October 2008: http://fa.shahrvand.com/. It…
Imprisoned for Being Baha'i
[The following report was filed on Friday, 3 October 2008, with online service, Iran-Emrooz: http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/16743/ and is offered below in translation.] Summary Harassment and unbridled aggravation against Baha’i citizens continues in the central towns of…
What Crime Did These Trees Commit?
During the early hours of Saturday, 27 September 2008, the custodians and grounds-keepers of the Baha’i cemetery in Isfahan visited the cemetery (on the road leading to Nain in province of Yazd) and found all…
New Academic Year in Iran: But What about the Baha’i Students?
By Behrouz Setoodeh [Setoodeh is a prominent political activist and often writes informed social and political essays for Iran-Global online site. The following article was posted on 15 September 2008 at Iran Global and Peykarian.…
Media Attack Against the Baha'i Faith
In the English-reading world, we often don’t hear very much about the unabated media attack in Iran against the Baha’i community. And when we hear something, often it is not the full story or doesn’t…
Montazeri’s Admirable Defense of our Baha’i countrymen
By Behrouz Setoodeh [The following is a translation of an essay by Behrouz Setoodeh, published at: http://sokhansara.com/HTML/bahai.htm. Mr. Setoodeh is a prominent political and human rights activist, and articles by him have previously appeared on…
Redeem a Shameful History by Defending our Baha’i Countrymen!
by Behrouz Setoodeh [Setoodeh is a former prominent political activist and often writes informed political essays for Iranglobal website. This article was posted at http://www.jamali.info/minorities/?page=170508_A1 and extracts from it are translated below. Mr. Setoodeh is…
The Cologne Proclamation
[On Monday, 22 September 2008, DW-World.DE, which is the online service of the prestigious Deutsche Welle network, reported the following news. This report is available at http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3663349,00.html and was filed by K. Ghahari. Ahang Rabbani,…
Latest Status of 3 Imprisoned Youth
On Sunday, 21 September 2008, Human Rights Activists in Iran filed the following report (http://www.hrairan.com/Archive_87/1066.html): Raha Sabet, Heleh Rouhi and Sasan Taqva were accused of forming illegal groups and promoting interests contrary to the Islamic…
Saturday, 20 September 2008
News Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), which often echoes the archconservative sentiments of Iran’s Islamic regime, reported on Friday, 19 September 2008, (http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1201091&Lang=P) that a petition was signed earlier in the day at the Friday…
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