Source: en.iranwire.com Friday 27, 2015 By Natasha Schmidt, Kian Sabeti Intelligence Ministry agents raided a number of Baha’i homes in Tehran, Isfahan and Kerman and arrested 16 Baha’i citizens on February 16 and 17.…
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Baha’i Couples Spend Valentine’s Day in Prison
February 13, 2015 Source: www.radiozamaneh.com/205372 By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Human Rights activists report of intensified pressures on Baha’i citizens and incarceration of a large number of them in the past year.…
“I Was Embarrassed by My Freedom”
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Excerpts from Bahman Ahmadi Amouee’s report on Prison Conditions Fereshteh Ghazi Thursday, January 29, 2015 From the moment he was arrested together with his wife at midnight on June 20…
Widespread Raids and Arrests of Baha’is by Security Forces in Tehran
Source: Population of Combat against Educational Discrimination (P.C.E.D.) Translation by Iran Press Watch On the 16th of February 2015, security forces raided and searched Baha’i citizens’ residences in Tehran. After the raid and search, five…
Extensive Raids in Tehran and Isfahan: 17 Baha’is Arrested
Source: www.rahesabz.net/story/90215/ Translation by Sen’s daily On February 16 and 17, security officers raided and searched the homes of Baha’is in Tehran and Isfahan, and arrested 17 Baha’is. In Tehran, the homes of Sasan Yadegar, Ehsan…
Human Rights in Iran: Marginalized and Sanitized
Source: www.huffingtonpost.ca By Irwin Cotler 02/10/2015 As P5+1 proceeds, it is important to appreciate that the prevention of a “nuclear breakout” capability is inextricably intertwined with the Iranian regime’s ongoing massive repression of human rights. Indeed, negotiations…
Imprisoned BIHE Educator with Heart Disease Denied Medical Treatment
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: Foad Moghaddam*, a physician and one of the managers of the online university of the Baha’is, despite heart problems and other health issues,…
My Grandfather Passed Away in Adel-Abad Prison
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Parisa Sabet I don’t quite recollect “Golestan Javeed,” the old Baha’i cemetery of Shiraz, which has been recently razed to the ground. I only know that my paternal grandfather,…
I Grew up Away from My Mother, in Prison Meeting Halls
Source: www.roozonline.com November 26, 2014 Translation by Iran Press Watch The story of many years of prison visits, by Fariba Kamalabadi’s daughter By Fereshteh Ghazi [email protected] She was thirteen years…
One Thousand Years Incarceration for Iranian Baha’is
Source: sahamnews.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Published on Wednesday, 26 Nov 2014 During the last few months, economic and social pressure, along with widespread arrests and imprisonment of members of the Baha’i community, have increased.…
Susan Tebyanian: I’ll Be Back in Jail in a Few Days
Source: en.iranwire.com/features/6184/ Wednesday 10 December 2014 Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour When you hear Susan Tebyanian speak, it is not the type of voice you associate with a woman that could be swept off to prison at a second’s notice.…
Fariba Kamalabadi’s Letter to Her Beautiful Daughter the Bride
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday 27 November, 2014 Mother prominently absent from daughter’s wedding Fariba Kamalabadi, who has been sentenced to twenty years of prison for being a member of the Baha’i Yaran…
Fariba Kamalabadi Denied Leave to Attend Daughter’s Wedding
Source: wp.me/pNMoJ-2am Fariba Kamalabadi one of the seven “Yaran” (National facilitators for the Bahai community) who are serving twenty-year prison sentences as prisoners of conscience, has been denied leave from prison to attend the wedding of…
Details of the One-Year Prison Sentence of Susan Tebyanian
Source: cshr.org.uk/human-rights-portal/news/2822 Translation by Iran Press Watch November 6th 2014 Centre for Supporters of Human Rights By Nargis Tavasolian Susan Tebyanian, a Baha’i from Semnan, in 2005 wrote a letter directly to then-President Khatami, toward…
Men are Fulfilling their Duties as Fathers from Prison Cells
Source: roozonline Translated by Iran Press Watch by Masoud Bastani Thursday, October 10, 2014 Gorgani Baha’is in Rajai Shahr prison The first part of this report includes the stories of seven people who are among political…
Sentence of Susan Tebyaniyan Confirmed
Source: http://wp.me/pNMoJ-293 The review court has confirmed the sentence of Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan who was arrested on May 31, 2014. She was sentenced to one year in prison and the confiscation of all…
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