Source: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) this week marks the two-year anniversary of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s assumption of…
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Religious Persecution On the Rise: Minorities Under Threat in the Middle East
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Doug Bandow 07/25/2015 All religious faiths are victims of persecution somewhere. In this supposedly enlightened, tolerant age, people routinely are brutalized, jailed and killed for their faith — or lack of faith —…
My View: Yes, Iran Jails People for Their Opinions
Source: www.deseretnews.com By Katrina Lantos Swett and Robert George For the Deseret News May 28 2015 – “We do not jail people for their opinions.” So insisted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in his April…
Iran Religious Persecution: Baha’i Faith Leaders Remain Imprisoned After Seven Years
Source: www.ibtimes.com By Lora Moftah @LoraMoftah [email protected] on May 15 2015 2:20 PM EDT Events are being planned around the world this week to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the arrest of Iran’s Baha’i religious leaders. Multiple pictures of the Baha’i…
Iran Escalates Persecution of Religious Minorities Under Rouhani
Christians, Baha’is jailed despite election of the purportedly moderate president Source: freebeacon.com May 13, 2015 5:00 am BY: Daniel Wiser Iranian authorities have escalated their persecution of religious minorities since the election of President Hassan Rouhani despite…
Save Freedom of Worship in the Middle East
Source: National Review Online, http://goo.gl/OKkVmZ We must prioritize protecting religious minorities under threat. By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Earlier this year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 15th annual report on the…
FPI Fact Sheet: Iran’s Human Rights Violations under Rouhani
[foreignpolicyi.org] By FPI Senior Policy Analyst Patrick Christy & Policy Director Robert Zarate While U.S. policymakers and lawmakers are focused on reversing Iran’s nuclear threat, Iran continues to pose other serious challenges to America’s national security…
Persecution of the Baha’is in Iran
The U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs (OPA) works to protect the rights of Baha’i communities facing persecution, most notably in Iran. Baha’is are allowed to practice their faith freely in most parts of the…
Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners of Conscience
By ROBERT P. GEORGE AND KATRINA LANTOS SWETT May 19, 2014 1:26 p.m. ET As Iran approaches the anniversary of Hasan Rouhani’s presidential victory, the Islamic Republic’s human-rights record, particularly its treatment of religious minorities,…
Iran's abuses of religious freedom condemned
[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…
Baha'is accuse Iran of stoking hatred in media
By Joe Sterling, CNN, 22-Oct-2011 (CNN) — Iranian media outlets have “systematically stirred up” widespread contempt toward the country’s 300,000-strong Baha’i religious minority, the group says. The Baha’i International Community issued a report Friday entitled “Inciting…
Iranian Authorities raid an online learning network
[movements.org, MAY 25, 2011] BY ASHIYAN RAHMANI-SHIRAZI This past weekend, amidst continued, under-the-radar simmering of Green Movement activities, an online educational network for Baha’i youth was raided. The Baha’i[s] are, at about 300,000 people, the largest non-Muslim religious…
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,…
BELIEF BEHIND BARS: LAWMAKERS, PERFORMERS TO DRUM UP SUPPORT AT CAPITOL HILL RECEPTION FOR IRAN’S SEVEN IMPRISONED BAHA’I LEADERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 5, 2011 Contact: Ginous Alford | O: 202-833-8990 | M: 202-643-1612 | [email protected] BELIEF BEHIND BARS: LAWMAKERS, PERFORMERS TO DRUM UP SUPPORT AT CAPITOL HILL RECEPTION FOR IRAN’S SEVEN IMPRISONED…
U.S.A. joins Netherlands, U.K. and European Union in chorus of condemnation at prison sentences
13 August 2010 GENEVA — The United States of America has said it “strongly condemns” the sentencing of seven Iranian Baha’i leaders to 20 years imprisonment. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the act…
Religious Freedom in Iran Worsened
Editor’s Note: The following report was posted on WashingtonTV on May 1, 2009, at http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=floater_censoredculture&id=10138: Religious freedom conditions in Iran have “worsened” during the past year, Dr. Richard Land, a commissioner with the United States…