Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-483 Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: January 31, 2015 HRANA News Agency – The Ministry of Information in the city of Rasht summons and threatens individuals who have relations with Baha’i citizens. According to…
Source: www.farzanfaramarzi.com Translation by Sen’s daily On the morning of January 29, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided the home of Arman Atrian , a Bahai from Shiraz, and seized religious books and images,…
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 29 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: On the morning of Wednesday, 28 January 2015, Dr. Foad Moghaddam, a physician and one of the administrators of the Baha’i online university,…
Source: www.tutu.org.za/education-is-not-a-crime-campaign January 30, 2015 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African social rights activist, anti-apartheid hero, and human rights campaigner, who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, truly needs no introduction. And today His Grace…
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of five Nobel Prize laureates to endorse the Education is Not A Crime campaign Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid hero who received the Nobel Peace…
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: Foad Moghaddam*, a physician and one of the managers of the online university of the Baha’is, despite heart problems and other health issues,…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch 22 January, 2015 HRANA News Agency- Rozita Vaseghi, a Baha’i, has been freed from Vakeel-Abad prison in Mashhad after five years imprisonment. According to HRANA, the news agency of…
Source: Radio JiBi, Published January 18, 2015 Behrad Azargan, a student in the field of Electronic Technology in the Department of Industrial Power at Mulla Sadra Polytechnic Institute of Technology of Ramsar, after passing five…
Source: wp.me/pNMoJ-2dh January 21, 2015 On January 19, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided the workplace and then the home of Mr. Hasan Salehi in Shiraz. They had a search warrant for both properties. The…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/thought-and-expression/atena-3 Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday, the 8th of January, 2015 HRANA – Atena Farghadani, a civil rights activist, has been summoned to the 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court by Judge Abu’l-Qasim…
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Parisa Sabet I don’t quite recollect “Golestan Javeed,” the old Baha’i cemetery of Shiraz, which has been recently razed to the ground. I only know that my paternal grandfather,…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-420 Translation by Iran Press Watch January 11, 2015 HRANA News Agency Noora Mossama, a student majoring in Computer Software Engineering at the State University of Mazandaran, was dismissed at the end of her first…
11 JAN 2015, POSTED BY ALISON LESLEY Source: www.worldreligionnews.com/issues/why-are-burial-rights-being-denied-to-a-bahai-in-iran SHAMEL BINA PASSED AWAY IN OCTOBER 2014, BUT HIS REMAINS ARE UNBURIED BECAUSE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE REFUSING BURIAL RIGHTS. What should have been a period of mourning for most…
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: Friday, January 2, 2015 HRANA News Agency – Agents of the Ministry of Information in the city of Abadeh arrested Farshid Rastegar, as well as other Baha’i students…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-406 Translation by Sen’s daily Leila Kargar, a 42-year-old Bahai woman living in Shiraz, has been poisoned and killed by an unknown person, using Aluminium Phosphide, a powder that is used to kill insects and…
Source: Baha’i World News Service 29 December 2014 GENEVA — The body of a Baha’i has been held in the morgue for nearly two months in the large, southern Iranian city of Ahvaz because local…
