Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Marjan Keypour Greenblatt Co-Founder, Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) Dr. Kavian Milani Co-Founder, Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) While we as Americans believe that education is the vehicle for…
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Human Rights Groups Call on Iranian President Rouhani to Let UN Monitors Visit Iran
Source: Bahai International Community, United Nations Office, goo.gl/f2n42S Topic: Situation of Iranian Baha’is NEW YORK—24 September 2014 An ad hoc coalition of human rights organizations is asking Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to honor and facilitate requests from…
Shirin Ebadi’s Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon Convince Iranian Authorities to Be More Considerate toward Sufis and Other Religious Communities
Source: www.majzooban.org, goo.gl/7GKaJJ Sunday, Sep 21 2014 Tehran, 20-09-2014, security forces attacked and arrested Gonabadi Sufis who were going to stage a peace rally in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office. On the same day, Shirin…
Dervishes Were Beaten, Humiliated and Injured by Security Forces
Sunday, Sep 21 201 Source: www.majzooban.org, goo.gl/YbyWjY In the second day of protest gathering by Gonabadi Dervishes in front of the prosecutor office today on Sunday 21 september at 9 a.m security forces and police are…
Film Shows Fight for Education by Iran’s Baha’is
Source: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/film-shows-fight-for-education-by-irans-bahais/2015736.article 18 SEPTEMBER 2014 | BY MATTHEW REISZ To Light a Candle documentary spotlights work of underground Baha’i Institute for Higher Education in face of persecution Campaigning: Maziar Bahari A new film will form part of a major…
Anahita Ettehadi’s Exam Result Withheld for Being a Baha’i
Source: www.farzanfaramarzi.com/2014/09/blog-post_12.html Translation by Iran Press Watch A Baha’i student who has been deprived of education in Iran, Anahita Ettehadi, has sat for her exam, after registering for National University Entrance Exam in the month…
Shame and Nothing Else!
Source: PCED, goo.gl/T2Hfmk Translation by Iran Press Watch Mohammad Nourizad and Dr. Mohammad Maleki visit a group of Baha’is who have been deprived of higher education. The Society to Combat Discrimination in Education – The Iranian…
The ‘Yellow Badge’ of the Digital Age
Situation of the Baha’is of Iran Source: www.bic.org/statements/Situation-Bahais-Iran-1 Human Rights Council 27 – item 4 16 September 2014 Geneva Yesterday, the Baha’i International Community released a document entitled “Unfulfilled Promises”, which reviews the commitments the Islamic…
No Baha’i Student Has Ever Returned to University
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com/174825 Translation by Iran Press Watch 10 September, 2014 In an open letter to Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s President, 360 Baha’is who have been barred from university have declareed: “despite the current government’s promises, barring…
Iran’s President Has Not Delivered on Pledges of More Freedom – U.N.
Source: Reuters, goo.gl/I96kX3 BY LOUIS CHARBONNEAU UNITED NATIONS, Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:04pm BST (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s promises of greater freedoms for the Islamic Republic have not resulted in any major improvements regarding human…
Bahai Home Raided in Shiraz
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-72 Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-26K On September 9, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence broke into the home of Wahideh Dana in Shiraz, searched it for about an hour, and confiscated religious books, images…
New Report on Iran’s Failed Promises on Human Rights
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1019 GENEVA — Iran has completely failed to live up to a series of promises it made regarding its treatment of Iranian Baha’is four years ago, says the Baha’i International Community in a new report. Titled…
Execution of the Seven Baha’is in Hamadan; “Judgment Day in the Eyes of Bahireh”
Source: iranwire.com/features/6478/ Translation by Iran Press Watch Aida Ghajar Monday, September 1, 2014 Following the 1978 revolution and the rule of the clerics, opposition to Baha’is began in Iran. Arrests of members of local and National…
Saqi Fedai Rearrested in Mashhad
Source: HRANA, goo.gl/Y3rp9B Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-26E Saqi Feda’i, a Bahai from Mashhad, has been summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence and arrested. She was first arrested by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence…
Iran Is World’s Leading Jailer of Female Journalists and Netizens
Source: en.rsf.org/iran-iran-is-world-s-leading-jailer-of-28-07-2014,46712.html PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 28 JULY 2014. Ten women who work in the media are currently behind bars in the Islamic Republic The arrest on 22 July of two journalists and a photographer, including…
Denial of Higher Education Continues in the New Academic Year for Bahai’s
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-63 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Tara Hooshmand, a Baha’i resident of Shiraz who had participated in the national university entrance exam this year, has been deprived of higher education despite passing the…
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