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Letter from an Expelled Baha’i Student
Source: hra-news.org Date: August 14, 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA New Agency – Dorsa Gholizadeh, an architecture student at Roozbehan University in Sari, was summoned to the news organ of the Ministry of Information…
What Sin Has Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani Committed?
Source: radiofarhang.nu By Heshmatullah Tabarzadi1 10th August 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch Mr. Khanjani is an 83 year old gentleman incarcerated in Hall number 21 of Evin prison. In truth, is there any government except that…
Hamadan Court Has Sentenced Ten Baha’is to Imprisonment and Exile
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews” and based on judicial authorities’ assertion, on July 29th 2015 ten Baha’i citizens were sentenced to imprisonment and exile. Again according to a reliable source, ten…
BIHE Educator Freed at the End of His 4-Year Sentence
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Kamran Rahimian, one of the educators of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Eduction (BIHE) in Iran, has been released from Raja’i Shahr prison, near Tehran, at the end of a…
Fresh Graffiti against Baha’is in Tehran
Source: hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – On the night of July 25-26, a Bahai home in the Shahrak-e Gharb district in North-west Tehran was defaced with the usual unimaginative slogan: “Death to Baha’i.” According to the report of…
Official Pressure to Boycott Bahai-Run Businesses in Zahedan
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Sen’s daily The adyannnews website, has published a photograph of a Baha’i-run optometry shop in Zahedan, along with an article which says that although all the Shia and Sunni religious authorities have stated…
Over 30 Bahai Businesses Closed in Sari
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Reports from Sari indicate that over 30 Bahai businesses have been closed by authorities, and that the closures are continuing. Most of the closures have now lasted from 3 weeks…
Two Bahais in Sanandaj Targets of Vandalism and Official Pressure
Source: mafnews.net Translation by Sen’s daily Azarakhsh Mansouri and Majid Abdul-Motallebi, two Baha’is from Sanandaj, were detained at a prayer meeting in a private house on April 1, 2014, and interrogated for a few hours. They…
Saba Golshan Begins 4-Year Sentence in Isfahan
Source: sensday.wordpress.com Mr. Saba Golshan reported to the central prison on Isfahan this morning, to begin serving a 4-year sentence. His sentence also includes a one-year suspended sentence. On August 1, 2011, agents from the Ministry…
In Iran, Anti-Baha’i Actions Hurt People and Business
Source: www.ihrb.org (Institute for Human Rights and Business) by Bayan Towfiq1 August 11, 2015 The airwaves are still buzzing with news of the historic nuclear dealbetween six major world powers and Iran. As foreign corporations begin to consider…
Human Rights Activists Visit the Family of Navid Khanjani on the Occasion of His Birthday
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On the occasion of the birthday of Navid Khanjani * – a Baha’i citizen who has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for his belief in the Baha’i Faith…
Three Members of Khanjani Family Share 36 Years of Prison
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch by Behnam Roghani Since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, Iranian Baha’is have systematically faced several types of pressure by officials. They met with many atrocities, including capital punishment,…
A Quiet Genocide
By Shapour Daneshmand AQUIETGENOCIDE.COM is a project that evolved out of the mounting concern of alarmed Americans and Iranians appalled by the atrocities committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran against an entire group of…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Chided for Religious Persecution
Source: www.washingtontimes.com By Cheryl Wetzstein – The Washington Times – Monday, August 3, 2015 Iran’s president, who reached his second anniversary in office Monday, was again implored to release prisoners of conscience — including an Iranian-American pastor…
Rouhani: Two Years Later
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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