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By SENTINEL PROJECT | Published: MARCH 18, 2012 The Sentinel Project’s research team is constantly seeking to improve the flow of information surrounding our situations of concern (SOC). After all, information is the key to…
[BWNS 29 March 2012] NEW YORK — Sunday 1 April marks 10,000 days that Iran’s seven former Baha’i leaders have spent in prison between them – a period throughout which they have been deprived of the…
[BWNS 22 March 2012] WASHINGTON, D.C., United States — Iran remains one of the worst abusers of the right to religious freedom in the world, according to a new report. The US Commission on International Religious…
[UNHR, 6 March 2012] In its “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran” Human Rights Council Nineteenth session included a report on the situation of the…
[BWNS, 2 Mar. 2012] GENEVA — The Baha’i International Community has noted with alarm a new Amnesty International report that highlights the widening crackdown on dissent in Iran. The document, titled ‘We are ordered to crush you’:…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia —Treatment of the Baha’is in Iran has “escalated to an institutionalised and blatant policy of persecution,” according to a proclamation issued by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Slovakian parliament. The proclamation describes the…
[huffingtonpost.co.uk, 11-Nov-2011, by Dr. Khishan Manocha] The tide of persecution in Iran is rising. In a fresh wave of attacks against the Bahá’í community – Iran’s largest religious minority – three women were arrested on…
[bahai.us, 3 Nov. 2011] iranhumanrights.org, Nov. 2 – Following the sentencing of seven Baha’isassociated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the…
By FIRUZ KAZEMZADEH In some 40 years as a university professor, I have been privileged to teach students who went on to serve their people as senators, ambassadors, prominent scholars and even U.S. president. None of…
[1 Oct 2011] HRANA News Agency – On Thursday, September 29, 2011, twenty one Baha’i citizens were arrested in Esfahan and taken to an unknown location. Amongst the detainees, there was a 9 year old…
[BWNS 26 Sep 2011] NEW YORK — As a number of Baha’i educators appear in court in Iran, two Nobel Peace Prize winners have sharply criticized the Iranian government, comparing its actions to “the Dark Ages…
[Amnesty International, 12 Sep.2011] The Iranian authorities must immediately release one of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Abdolfattah Soltani, who was arrested on Saturday, Amnesty International said today. Soltani, a co-founder of the Centre…
Anthony Vance, Director of External Affairs, Baha’is of the United States “If your tea is too sweet, you can stir it the other way.” This kind of quip was typical of Mahmoud Badavam and of Persian…
[Radio Free Europe, 6 Sep 2011] EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has condemned the persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran. In a statement issued, Ashton expressed “serious concerns about the recent wave of…
EUROPEAN UNION Brussels, 6 September 2011 A 347/11 The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement yesterday:…
