The Board of Deputies and the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) are united in their condemnation of the arrest and detention of eleven senior Bahá’í educationalists in Iran. All eleven worked for the Bahá’í Institute for…
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The Board of Deputies and the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) are united in their condemnation of the arrest and detention of eleven senior Bahá’í educationalists in Iran. All eleven worked for the Bahá’í Institute for…
Michael Binyon July 29 2011 5:34PM [thetimes.co.uk, 30 July 2011] Few religions have known such vicious persecution in the land of their birth. The Baha’is, for the past 30 years, have suffered systematic discrimination and…
Source: fa.iranpresswatch.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Rahana- Iran Human Right News Agency The ongoing summonses and interrogations of Baha’is associated with BIHE – the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education – displays but one of the…
[RAHANA, 15 Aug. 2011] 5 Baha’i social activists who are all under the age of 20 were arrested on Saturday August 6, 2011. These arrests took place at the Ministry of Information located on Roodaki…
[BWNS, 23 Aug. 2011] GENEVA — Iran’s treatment of its Baha’i citizens has been identified as a major area of concern in three important new surveys carried out by international human rights organizations. The reports…
The brother of an Australian member of the Baha’i Faith is among 11 Baha’is reportedly charged in Iran for delivering higher education to young Baha’is banned from university because of their religion. Among those understood…
(BWNS 27 July 2011) GENEVA — Some nine weeks after they were arrested, 11 Iranian Baha’is – associated with an initiative offering higher education to young community members barred from university – are now reportedly facing…
CHICO, Calif., July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following was written by Scholars for Peace in the Middle EastBoard of Directors: The undersigned members of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a…
Arrests on the rise According to the latest reports, 103 Baha’is are currently behind bars because of their religious beliefs. This number has risen dramatically from the beginning of the year. Another nearly 100 Baha’is have received…
The Bahá’í community has faced repression for years in an Iran that seeks to control private thought and beliefs Omid Djalali, guardian.co.uk, 10 July 2011 Back in the mid-90s in my show I’m A Short…
(HRA 20 June 2011) HRANA News Agency – On the evening of June 20, 2011, six citizens from the city of Esfahan were arrested. According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, a few hours…
(HRA 6 june 2011) On Saturday and Sunday nights, June 4-5, 2011, security forces were dispatched to the houses of three Baha’i citizens in Babol and Babolsar, [Gilan Province], and arrested five individuals.
(RAHANA 28 June 2011) Two Baha’i citizens have been arrested in Isfahan and one Baha’i citizen has been detained in Mashhad.
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 8 June 2011) By Golnaz Esfandiari, When Houshang Fanaian joined Facebook last year, little did he expect it would land him in an Iranian prison. That’s exactly where he finds…
(BWNS 26 June 2011) GENEVA — The worldwide outcry against the persecution of Iran’s Baha’i community has been joined by the Chilean Senate, a Muslim Senator in Canada, and prominent Indian organizations. The latest calls – for…
[BWNS 29 June 2011] BRUSSELS, Belgium — One of the lawyers who defended Iran’s seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders has made an impassioned plea for justice during an extraordinary meeting held at the European Parliament. Mahnaz…