Source: qz.com WRITTEN BY Neha Thirani Bagri @NehaNotes Marjan Davoudi was 19 years old when she was told that she was not human. Davoudi, now 56, had been studying math at the National University in Tehran when…
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Saeed Azimi Remains in Uncertainty After 108 Days
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews reports, Saeed Azimi, a Bahá’í resident of the city of Isfahan arrested by security agents, remains in limbo after 108 days in Dastgerd Prison. Per…
Iran’s Persecution of Baha’is Has Become More Covert
Source: Baha’i International Community UN Human Rights Council – 34st Session, March 2017 Agenda Item 4 GENEVA—15 March 2017 Mr. President, For nearly four decades, the Iranian government has tried to eliminate the Baha’i community…
Arrest of Sorour Foroughi Mehdi Abadi, a Baha’i Citizen Who Suffers from Cancer
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report by Bahainews, security agents arrested Mrs. Sorour Foroughi Mehdi Abadi (Roshan) at 7:30 AM on 21 February 2017, and transferred her to Evin Prison.…
Two Baha’i Youths Arrested in Shiraz
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report by BahaiNews, on Sunday morning, February 12, 2017, security forces in the city of Shiraz in Fars province arrested two Baha’is, Farham Sabet and…
Three Baha’is From Kerman Arrested
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, today, Wednesday February 8th, 2017, Ehsan Amirinia, Nima Rajabzadeh and Arman Bandi, three Baha’is from the city of Kerman, were detained by provincial Intelligence and…
I fled Iran after being imprisoned for my religion. Now …
Source: www.thetab.com ‘You never think the horror stories are going to happen to you’ Born in Tehran, Iran, Nasim Biglari is a twenty-nine year-old visual art and media student at the University of California, San Diego.…
Iran: Overcoming Persecution to Graduate
Source: Study International Staff The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects…
Non-Persian Iran
Source: www.jewishpolicycenter.org Kenneth R. Timmerman • Winter 2017 When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,” terrorists and turbans, evil-looking beards and missiles rising from bright, arid canyons. If they think further, some…
Iran’s Baha’i and the Freedom Tower
Source: www.internationalaffairs.org.au By Michael Day In the lead-up to Christmas, the United Nations General Assembly passed its 29th resolution since 1985 drawing attention to human rights violations in Iran. Among the groups persecuted, followers of the…
Closure of Baha’i-Owned Shops in Iran Continues
Source: Bahainews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch The business place of Nosratollah Takapooy in the city of Bijar in Kurdestan province has been sealed by agents of the Office of Public Places. He has 56 years…
The Crush Continues: Rouhani and the Ban on Baha’i Education
Source: www.iranwire.com AIDA GHAJAR President Hassan Rouhani and his government have failed to ease pressure on Iran’s Baha’i community. In fact, in some cases, the persecution against Iran’s largest religious minority has intensified. Since Rouhani and…
After More Than 4 Years, Baha’i Shops Still Closed in Hamadan (Includes Fully Documented Report)
Source: Bahainews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Bahainews website, after 4 years the shops of Baha’is in Hamadan remain closed by Iranian officials. According to a Bahainews report, on November 4, 2012,…
Search and Arrest of Four Baha’is in Zahedan
Source: BahaiNews1 26 November at 9:53 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Baha’i News, four Baha’i residents of Zahedan ‒ Siyawash Rahimi, Baharam Rowhani, Mehrnoosh Ramezani and Hyda Yazdan ‒ have been arrested by…
Murder of a Baha’i in Yazd and Inquiry About the Rights of Baha’is
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
Arrest of Baha’is in Shiraz
Source: www.iranwire.com Saturday 26 November 2016 By Kian Sabeti, Translation by Iran Press Watch On the evening of Tuesday 22 Nov, agents of the Office of Information of Shiraz, in a coordinated attempt, went to the…