Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press watch HRANA News Agency – Elaheh Samizadeh and Soodabeh Haghighat, Baha’i citizens living in Shiraz, were sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison by the First Branch…
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Heavy Sentences, Return to Prison for Baha’is in Iran Despite Health Crisis
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 May 2020—In a reprehensible move by the Iranian government, incidents of persecution against the Baha’is have increased despite already difficult circumstances endured by the entire population during a global health crisis. In recent…
Iran Revolutionary Court Sentences 7 Bahais To 33 Years Prison
Source: en.radiofarda.com A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced seven followers of the Baha’i faith to a total of 33 years in prison, Iran Human Rights News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday. According to the report…
The JCPOA Has Not Improved Iran’s Human Rights Record
Source: www.fdd.org Tzvi Kahn, Alireza Nader The Obama administration routinely argued that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran could spur Tehran to moderate, thereby reducing its systematic human rights abuses. But this forecast has proven…
Vahed Kholousi, Human Rights Activist and Baha’i, Released from Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – this morning, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Vahed Kholousi Derakhshan, a human rights activist and a Baha’i citizen, was informed of his early release after contacting…
Baha’i-Owned Business Shut Down for Twelve Years, Owner’s Requests for Reopening Denied by Prosecutors
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – The optician business of Baha’i citizen, Payam Vali, has been shut down and sealed by government agencies for approximately twelve years, with his most recent…
USCIRF Denounces Iran’s Religious Freedom Violations
Source: www.fdd.org By Tzvi Kahn Religious freedom conditions in Iran “remained egregiously poor” in 2019, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday. The report paints a bleak portrait…
Baha’i Carpenter Arrested, Charged with Building Boxes for Prayer Books
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On May 2, at around 4pm, three groups of officers identifying themselves as Revolutionary Guards intelligence agents, simultaneously raided the homes of three Baha’i citizens living in Isfahan. The Baha’is were Shahzad…
Birjand: Nine Baha’is Have Been Sentenced to a Total of 51 Years and Eight Months in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Nine Baha’i citizens ‒ Rahmatollah Deimi, Atieh Salehi, Ataollah Malaki, Farzaneh Deimi, Nasrin Ghadiri, Banafsheh Mokhtari, Arezoo Mohammadi, Saeed Malaki and Roya Malaki ‒ have been sentenced…
Iran Is the ‘World’s Chief Trafficker in Antisemitism,’ Says US Monitor
Source: www.jpost.com By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL The Islamic Republic of Iran’s antisemitic targeting its tiny Jewish population, Israel, Christians and Jews in the Diaspora, was cited in the report. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)…
US Urged To Sanction Those Who Violate Religious Freedom In Iran
Source: en.radiofarda.com The bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has singled out Iran and several other countries for criticism in its annual report released on Tuesday, April 28. Referring to the continuing violations of religious…
UN Urges for Immediate Release of Baha’i Prisoners in Yemen
Source: www.nytimes.com By The Associated Press CAIRO — A group of U.N. human rights experts urged Yemen’s Shiite rebels on Thursday to free all prisoners from the Baha’i religious minority, following an earlier decision by the rebels…
BIHE Instructor Payman Koushk Baghi Released From Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Payman Koushk Baghi, a Baha’i citizen who had been sent on leave from Evin Prison on 18 March, 2020 was informed of an order issued…
Remembering Two Baha’i Nurses Who Were Murdered Because of Their Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education has repeatedly pointed to a serious shortage of physicians and nurses in Iran over the last several years. The shortage became even more glaring…
US Gov’t Agency Calls for Release of Baha’i Falsely Accused as Israeli Spy
Source: www.jpost.com BERLIN — The Washington-based United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urged on Thursday that the Iranian regime allied Houthi authorities in Yemen comply with their March 25 public commitment to release Baha’i…
Expulsions and Forced Migration Deprive Iran of Baha’i Physicians
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Officials at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education have repeatedly pointed out the serious shortage of doctors and nurses in Iran over the past few years.…
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