Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Health workers are on the front line of our defense against the coronavirus pandemic – including hundreds of Iranian Baha’i doctors and nurses. But they are not in Iran; instead, they live in countries…
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‘Iran’s Religious Minorities Facing Greatest Threat Since Revolution’
Source: articleeighteen.com Iran’s religious minorities are today facing the greatest threat to their existence since the 1979 revolution, according to one expert. Alireza Nader, senior fellow at the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), was…
Iran: Lawmakers Must Urgently Drop the Bill That Criminalises Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
Source: www.article19.org The rights to freedom of expression and freedom of religion and belief in Iran will be dealt yet another blow if a Bill proposing additional provisions to the Islamic Penal Code for “insulting legally-recognised…
European Government Ministers and Parliamentarians Condemn Denial of Higher Education to Baha’is in Iran
Source: www.bic.org BRUSSELS—18 December 2020—In recent weeks, a number of European government ministers and parliamentarians have spoken out against Iran’s systematic refusal to allow Baha’is access to higher education. Among those who have shared their concerns…
Interview on the ABC’s “the World” Program Concerning the Persecution of the Baha’is in Iran
Source: Australian Baha’i Community On 18 December 2020, the ABC’s “The World” program featured a segment concerning the escalating pressures faced by the Baha’i community in Iran due to their systematic persecution by Iranian authorities. The…
International support for Iran’s Baha’is highlights growing rights violations
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—16 December 2020—A United Nations resolution calling on the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect the rights of its citizens—and which refers to the violations faced by Iranian Baha’is—passed today at the…
Baha’i Citizen Living in Kerman Transferred to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Vahda Silani, a Baha’i citizen living in Kerman, was arrested on Sunday, December 13, 2020, after appearing in the Revolutionary Court of this city. She…
On Human Rights Day, a Focus on Education in Iran
Source: news.bahai.ca “Of course you don’t have the right to go to university; you are a Baha’i.” That is what Tolou Golkar was told by an Iranian official, after she was arrested and interrogated for her…
Sen. Mobina Jaffer’s Question to the Leader of the Gov’t in the Senate on the Persecution of Baha’is in Iran
Source: www.youtube.com Persecution of Bahá’í Minority Hon. Mobina S. B. Jaffer: My question is also for the Government Representative in the Senate. Senator Gold, I’ve been requested to ask you this question on behalf of many Bahá’í…
Congress Passes Resolution Condemning Iran’s Persecution of Baha’i Community
Source: www.globenewswire.com Washington, D.C., Dec. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 823, condemning the Iranian government’s persecution of the Baha’i community. The resolution, which enjoyed strong bipartisan support,…
Multilateralism holds Iran to account for human-rights abuses
Source: policyoptions.irpp.org Geoffrey Cameron For 17 years in a row, a Canada-led UN resolution has condemned violations against Iran’s people. This voice of the international community matters. At the end of October, the UN General Assembly’s…
For the Love of Their Country: The Murder of a Family Doctor
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti “Why are you asking so many times: why did you kill Dr. Vafa’i? Why did you kill the doctors? Why did you kill seven Baha’is? They were spies. … If Dr. Vafa’i helped people…
Home raids across Iran indicate alarming increase in human rights violations against Baha’is, says Baha’i International Community
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—30 November 2020—Over a hundred government agents raided the shops and homes of tens of Baha’is across Iran, on 22 November 2020, and demanded that they hand over their property deeds. The simultaneous raids…
A Baha’i Iranian Artist Addresses Persecution in Paintings
Source: iranwire.com Maryam Safajoo, an artist, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986, uses her work to depict the many forms of persecution faced by the Baha’i religious minority in Iran. Safajoo, a Baha’i herself, now lives in Champaign,…
How “Reformists” Tried to Placate the UN Over Discrimination Against Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have been banned from entering higher education for forty years, since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. This mass state-sanctioned infringement of human rights can be separated into…
ADL Task Force on Middle Eastern Minorities Condemns the Raids in Iran Targeting Baha’i Community
Source: www.adl.org New York, NY, November 24, 2020 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today condemned the recent raids targeting Iran’s vulnerable Baha’i community. According to reports, on November 22, homes of tens…
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