[RAHANA 22 May 2011] Baha’i citizen Amanollah Mostaghim has been arrested this morning in connection to the online Baha’i university BIHE. [see BIHE raid] Shiraz Intelligence agents raided the homes of several Baha’i families located…
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Academic staff of Baha’i distant education university arrested in Iran
The security forces have raided the houses of the staff of several online Baha’i universities in different cities and have detained them after searching their houses.
Government Attacks Baha’i Online University, Detains 30 Instructors
Detained Baha’is should be immediately released Discriminatory education policies should end (23 May 2011) Iranian authorities should stop attacks on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education and end policies that discriminatorily deprive members of the…
USCIRF probes persecution of Iranian Baha’i community in 2011 religious freedom report
On April 28, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2011 Annual Report.The report describes – beginning on page 78 – the “severe” persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran from April 2010 to March 2011. Iran…
Persecution of the Baha'i community of Iran – a review
Toronto, Ontario, 28 April 2011 (CBNS) — When 81-year-old Ashraf Khanjani-the wife of jailed Baha’i leader Jamaloddin Khanjani, 77, was on her deathbed, her last wish was to see her husband, said Nika Khanjani, her…
Washington reception marks May 14th anniversary of incarceration of Iran’s seven Baha’i leaders, draws large crowd in house & online
Participants in the Capitol Hill reception to honor the seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community, entering their fourth year of imprisonment, included: U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, U.S. Representative Michael Grimm, State Department’s Kathleen Fitzpatrick,…
Baha'i Citizens Are Forced to Leave Iran
12 April, 2011. Fereshteh Ghazi In an exclusive interview with Rooz, the spokesperson for the Baha’i International Community Farhad Sabetan talks about the Iranian government’s growing pressure on Baha’i citizens to force them to leave…
Iran upholds prison sentence for Baha’i leaders ahead of Christians’ blasphemy trial
(4 April 2011) Seven leaders of the Baha’i faith, currently detained in Gohardasht prison in Karaj, have been informed that their original 20-year prison term has been reinstated. The judgment came days before the blasphemy…
Iran Reinstates Draconian Sentence for Baha'i Leaders
By Michael Day ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 1 APR 2011 Iranian prison authorities have told seven jailed Baha’i leaders that their twenty-year sentences which had been halved by an appeals court have now been…
AI USA: Iranian Baha'i Leaders Hit By 'Vindictive' Sentence Extension, Says Amnesty International
Amnesty International Media Release For Immediate Release Thursday, March 31, 2011 Organization Repeats Call for Immediate Release of Seven Leaders Contact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, [email protected] (New York) — The reimposition of 20-year jail terms on…
IRANIAN BAHA'I LEADERS HIT BY 'VINDICTIVE' SENTENCE EXTENSION
(Amnesty, 31 March 2011) The reimposition of 20-year jail terms on seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority is “outrageous”, Amnesty International said today as it made a renewed call for their immediate release. The…
Justice for Members of Baha'i Community in Iran
By Michael Day ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 28 MAR 2011 The Baha’i New Year’s day on 21 March is usually a time for celebration but for one South Australian Baha’i the festivities this year…
Canada vows to hold Iran to the fire over human rights abuses
By Steven Edwards, Postmedia News March 24, 2011 UNITED NATIONS — Canada pledged on Thursday to maintain its annual “diplomatic” assault on Iran at the United Nations — even though the world body’s Human Rights…
More than 332 Arrested in Iran during the month of February
(RAHANA, 15 March 2011) According to confirmed reports, during the month of February 2010, more than 332 political and civil activists, students, and protesting citizens were arrested.
Prominent individuals and organizations renew support for Iran's seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders
New Delhi, 14 March, 2011 — The global support for Iran’s seven jailed Baha’i leaders is continuing as one of the prisoners begins her fourth year in detention. Mahvash Sabet – a schoolteacher and mother…
European Parliament reiterates call for the release of the seven Baha’i leaders
10 March 2011. The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the European Union’s approach to Iran, deploring “the fact that, contrary to the Constitution, members of religious minorities endure discrimination in housing, education and official jobs,…
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