Fuad Naeimi is a prominent Baha’i organizer in Sari, in the province of Mazandaran. In September 2007, he was convicted of “being active in the Baha’i sect” and commenced his sentence on 29 May 2008, …
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U.N. General Assembly expresses “deep concern” about human rights in Iran
By Baha’i World News Service 19 December 2007 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution expressing “deep concern” about “ongoing systematic violations of human rights” in Iran. Adopted by a…
Update on Three Baha’is in Yasuj
On 4 December 2008, Iran Press Watch shared the news of the imprisonment of three Baha’is in Yasuj on the charge of “activities against the nation’s security by holding anti-Islamic classes.” On Tuesday, 9 December…
Request for Iran Human Rights Commission
The following is a translation of the request of a group of Iranian human rights activist organizations on the occasion of December the 10th, International Human Rights Day, including a short report on the human…
Denial of Education: An Appeal by an Academic
On 30 October 2005, Dr. Christopher Buck wrote the following letter to several officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran serving in the United States, Canada and the Great Britain, in addition to sharing it…
Discrimination Of Minorities In Iran
There are at least 28 Baha’is in jail in different parts of Iran who are imprisoned because of their religion. At any given moment, there may actually be more than this number, but sometimes Baha’is…
Iranian Press Targets Nobel Prize Winner Ebadi
By James Gilman for Mcgill McGill University has been at the centre of a number of allegations made by the official media of the Islamic Republic of Iran this year. The Islamic Republic News Agency,…
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Letter of Mrs. Moslemi to Iran's Judiciary
Translated by Ahang Rabbani The wife of Anvar Moslemi, who is a member of the Baha’i community of the province of Mazandaran, has written a letter to the Court that has jurisdiction over her husband’s…
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Which Religion Has Authorized the Suppression of Ideas?
At the invitation of the Committee to Pursue Arbitrary Arrests and concurrent with Eid-e Fetr [end of Ramadan celebration] a group of human rights activists and families of political and ideological prisoners gathered at the…
Baha’is Arrested in Qa’emshahr
Translated by Ahang Rabbani On Monday, 17 November, Masoud Ataian, a member of the Baha’i community, was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Qa’emshahr, in the province of Mazandaran. It is important…
Freedom of Belief and the Rights of Religious Minorities: A Talk by Professor Hashem Aghajari
Translated by Ahang Rabbani At the invitation of the Committee for Investigation of Willful Arrests, a group of human rights activists and families of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience gathered on Wednesday afternoon [1…
Document Vindicating Baha’i Youth Prisoners in Shiraz
[On Thursday, 23 October 2008, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists of Iran published the following report vindicating the position of the Baha’i youth presently incarcerated solely for providing educational and socio-economic assistance to the…
Report of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Iran
On October 1, the UN Secretary-General issued a report on the situation of human and civil rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report’s summary stated: The present report, submitted in accordance with General…
End the Persecution of Baha’is
[On Thursday 29 May 2008 the organization United Republicans of Iran demanded the immediate release of the Baha’i leaders incarcerated in March and May of that year, http://www.iranrepublic.org/, and their proclamation is shared below for…
Redeem a Shameful History by Defending our Baha’i Countrymen!
by Behrouz Setoodeh [Setoodeh is a former prominent political activist and often writes informed political essays for Iranglobal website. This article was posted at http://www.jamali.info/minorities/?page=170508_A1 and extracts from it are translated below. Mr. Setoodeh is…
Saturday, 20 September 2008
News Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), which often echoes the archconservative sentiments of Iran’s Islamic regime, reported on Friday, 19 September 2008, (http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1201091&Lang=P) that a petition was signed earlier in the day at the Friday…