Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Baha’i leader Behrouz Tavakkoli has spoken out about the Iranian government’s “misunderstandings” about his minority faith. Tavakkoli spoke to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on December 15, 2017, 11 days after his release…
Source: www.bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Bahá’i citizen Negin Ghedamian was sent to prison for educating Bahá’i citizens. According to the “Not to Harass and imprison Bahá’i Compatriots campaign,” Negin Ghedamian, a Bahá’i citizen residing…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 17 December, 2017 The businesses of at least nine Baha’is have been closed and sealed by the agents of the Office of Public Properties of Eastern Azerbaijan Province in…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from HRANA, Human Rights Activists’ News Agency in Iran, Ms. Hiva Yazdan Mehdiabadi, a Baha’i resident of Yazd, was detained by security forces twenty days…
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch December 7, 2017 According to reports from the Baha’i Campaign, and as described by HRANA (Human Right Activists News Agency Iran), another Baha’i-owned has been forcibly closed and sealed.…
Source: www.iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR Iran’s Baha’i community is celebrating the release of Behrooz Tavakoli, one of the seven members of an informal leadership group called the Yaran (“the Friends”). Tavakoli is the third of the group to…
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — Behrooz Tavakkoli, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha’is in Iran who were imprisoned due to religious beliefs, has completed his unjust 10-year prison sentence.…
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kermanshah—Four Bahá’i residents of Kermanshah were detained by intelligence officials on December 2nd according to the “No to Harassment & Imprisonment of Bahá’i Compatriots” campaign. The detained residents, both…
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Shahindokht Molaverdi, Special Assistant to the Iranian President for Civil Rights, has reported that there have been written communications with the related authorities regarding the sealing of Bahá’í owned…
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Mahmoud Sadeghi: No One Should be Deprived of Education for Having a Different Religion Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Tehran, has recognized the right to…
Source: www.cnn.com By Moni Basu, CNN (CNN) –The sun had already set when the woman with long gray hair descended the steps to the same prison gate she had passed through all those years ago. Mahvash Sabet had…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Bahman Salehi, a Baha’i from Birjand, was transferred to the hospital after posting bail and securing a temporary release from prison. Mr. Salehi was suffering…
Source: www.iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR Fariba Kamalabadi, one of seven former members of an ad hoc leadership group for the Baha’i minority religion in Iran, was released from Evin Prison on October 31 after completing a 10-year prison sentence.…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Iran has responded to a draft UN resolution condemning the country’s human rights record by attempting to deflect responsibility and verbally criticizing the sponsors of the draft. After UN member states adopted the draft resolution by the UN’s…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Six Baha’i citizens were sentenced at Branch Three of the Revolutionary Court of Zahedan (Sistan and Baluchestan Province), to a combined total of 18 years imprisonment on…
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti On the morning of Wednesday, November 15, Hasan Momtaz, a teacher for the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), was arrested at his mother’s home in Shiraz and taken to Adelabad Prison.…
