Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – At 5 p.m. on October 31st, a Baha’i mother and daughter turned themselves in to begin serving one-year prison sentences. Mashhad resident May Kholousi, her daughter Saghi Fadaei,…
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Mehdi Hajati Banned From Shiraz City Council For Seeking Release of Detained Baha’is
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Iran’s judiciary has banned Mehdi Hajati from his seat at the Shiraz City Council because he tried to secure the release of two fellow citizens who were arrested for their Baha’i faith. “Based on a ruling…
Baha’i Citizen Zabihollah Raoufi Begins Prison Term in Sanandaj
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – On the morning of Wednesday, October 31st, Baha’i Sanandaj resident Zabihollah Raoufi, age 69, went to Sanandaj Prison to begin his one-year prison sentence. In July, Branch 4…
No News on Baha’is Arrested in Karaj
Source: www.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Tuesday, 23 October 2018 Translation by Iran Press Watch In the last two months, more than twenty Baha’is in different cities of Iran have been arrested or sentenced to imprisonment in Islamic…
UN Expert Calls for End to ‘Serious Violations’ Against Baha’is in Iran
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—25 October 2018—The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran has raised concerns regarding “serious violations” against the Baha’i community in Iran. Presenting a major report on the situation…
Iranian Baha’is Risk their Lives for Education
Source: www.iranwire.com On the evening of October 18, 100 people gathered at Howard University, a historic African-American center of higher education in Washington, DC, to hear the actor Penn Badgley in conversation with Iranian Baha’i…
Living Through Discrimination on Twitter
Source: www.iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch A recent Twitterstorm (#زندگی_در_تبعیض) in support of the rights of Baha’is in Iran has been widely welcomed by human rights organizations and social media users. Users in about twenty…
Increasing Number of Baha’i Arrests in Karaj
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency –After searching and inspecting houses and detaining six Baha’i citizens in Karaj, on Tuesday another two Baha’is were arrested following a search of homes, as…
Uncertainty About Baha’is Arrested in Isfahan
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch In its latest report on October 16th, the Human Rights Watch Organization has voiced concern about the intensified pressure and arrests of Baha’is in the last…
Under Pressure from Security Forces, Samsung Company Fires Baha’i Employee
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – In continued efforts to marginalize the Iranian Baha’i community, Yazd security officials put pressure on the administrator of a Samsung subsidiary to fire marketing representative Sahar Rouhani on…
Iranian Security Agencies Rounding Up Baha’is, Rights Watchdog Says
Source: en.radiofarda.com Iranian intelligence agents have stepped up their harassment of the Baha’i religious minority with a slew of arrests over the last few months, according to an October 16 report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).…
Iran: Arrests, Harassment of Baha’is
Source: www.hrw.org Public Official Arrested for Speaking Out Against Repression (Beirut) – Iranian intelligence officials have increased the arrests of the country’s Baha’i religious minority over the past two months, with no clear charges, Human Rights Watch said…
High Arrest Risk for Shirazi Baha’is
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Baha’i Shiraz resident Niloofar Hakimi was arrested by Shiraz Intelligence agents October 6th and transferred to a local detention center, continuing a recent wave of arrests of Baha’i…
Sham Court Proceedings Endanger Baha’is in Yemen
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—30 September 2018—The sham trial of more than 20 Baha’is in Yemen falsely accused of espionage and apostasy continued on 29 September. The second court hearing in Houthi controlled Sana’a was presided over…
Baha’i Student Expelled From University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Anahita Horr, a Baha’i undergraduate student at the non-profit Rasam Institute of Higher Education in Karaj, has been expelled from her university because she…
Open Letter: Baha’i Prisoner Hopeful Amid Fraught Traditions of New Academic Year
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA)- As a new academic year unfolds in Iran, Baha’i prisoner Azita Rafizadeh speaks out in an open letter about the systemic barriers between post-secondary education opportunities and the country’s…
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