[albawaba.com] by Irwin Cotler The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime – nuclear, terrorist, incitement, and – in particular…
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For the Bahá’ís Imprisoned in Iran, Freedom and Human Rights Seem Remote
[newstatesman.com] by Nazila Ghanea Seven Bahá’ís – members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, persecuted by the government for decades – have now spent six years in prison for practising their religion. It has been…
Rouhani Is No ‘Moderate’ When It Comes to Human Rights
[jpost.com] A number of human rights abuses in Iran have continued unabated – or have even intensified – under Rouhani’s “moderate” presidency. The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded…
Freed Iranian Rights Lawyer: ‘I’ve a Bad Feeling about the Women I Left Behind’
[theguardian.com] The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His mother, the leading Iranian human…
Susan Tebyanian Arrested in Semnan
[hra-news.org] Susan Tebyanian, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested in her home on the evening of May 31st. Agents from the Ministry of Intelligence searched her home, seized a computer and religious books and images,…
LOVED AMONG PRISONERS
[treasuresofwonderment.com] by Mary Victoria The poet in prison. Some of her work has recently been smuggled out of Rajei Shahr. One poem reads: We did not realize what our silent smiles could do. And so in…
March 2014 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
[shaheedoniran.org] by Dr. Ahmad Shaheed 13/03/2014 Latest Reports March 2014 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, presented to the 25th Session of the Human…
A Baha’i Prisoner Transferred to Ward of Dangerous Inmates
[hra-news.org] Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 HRANA- Shahram Chiniyan-Miyandvab, a Baha’i prisoner in the Raja’i Shahr prison of Karaj, has been transferred to the dangerous prisoners ward. According to the HRANA News Agency, the Human Rights Activists News…
A Baha’i Community Leader Writes to His Son from Prison
Source: www.rahesabz.net Translation by Iran Press Watch 16 May 2014 Chapters from History and Glimmers of Hope Vahid Tizfahm This is a letter from Vahid Tizfahm to his son. Vahid Tizfahm is one the…
What’s Wrong with Bahá’ís?
Behrouz Bahmani This government of Iran has been on a hunting expedition since 1979, with the express intention of essentially eradicating Bahá’ís from Iran. I don’t understand this, because every single Bahá’í I have ever met, or…
The Shame That I Carry With Me
By Masoud Lavasani (1), journalist, living in Turkey I was six or seven years old, walking with my father and mother along the winding alley of the “Imamzadeh Yahya” neighborhood…
Anniversary of the Arrest of Baha’i Leaders Attended by Civil Rights Activists
Published on Wednesday, May 14 , 2014 In May 2009 six of the former Baha’i community leaders (Yaran, or “Friends” of Iran) ˗ Fariba Kamal Abadi, Jamaluddin Khanjani, Afif Naimi , Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakoli…
Mother and Son Arrested in Tehran to Serve Prison Terms
HRANA News Agency – Elham Faramani and her son Shamim Na’imi were arrested in Tehran on May 11 and taken to Evin prison. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), They face…
Human Rights Champions in Iran Commemorate Sixth Anniversary of Imprisonment of Baha’i Leaders
15 May 2014 GENEVA — In an unprecedented show of solidarity, influential Iranian personalities, human rights activists, journalists, and a prominent religious leader gathered this week in Tehran to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment…
The May 14 Anniversary of the Yaran: Behrouz Tavakkoli’s Plight as a Baha’i in Iran
By Rezvanollah Tavakkoli Rezvanollah Tavakkoli is a Baha’i living in Virginia and is the brother of Behrouz Tavakkoli, who is serving a 20-year sentence as a prisoner of conscience in Iran. My brother Behrouz…
Imprisoned for His Faith
David Sweet, National Post Wednesday, May 14, 2014 As part of Iran Accountability Week, the National Post is partnering with Canadian Parliamentarians to highlight the plight of individual political prisoners being persecuted by Tehran’s theocratic…
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