Source: United Nations Human Rights, http://goo.gl/zqsmbF GENEVA (4 September 2014) – Three United Nations experts on human rights in Iran , freedom of religion, and minority issues have today renewed an appeal to the Government of…
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Special Conditions for Allowing Bahai Burials in Semnan
Source: tinyurl.com/ms28bu5 Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25h The recent burial of a Bahai in Semnan, in the section of the cemetery reserved for Baha’is, has revealed that new rules have been drawn up. The family…
One Arrest in Semnan
Source: http://goo.gl/uTb1bV Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-252 Noushadhar Khanjani, a Bahai from Semnan who was visiting family in Semnan, was arrested by security forces this morning. He has been interviewed by the Ministry of Intelligence several…
Farhad Eqbali Begins 5-Year Sentence in Gorgan
Source: http://goo.gl/DxmjDr Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25n Farhad Eqbali, a Bahai resident of Gorgan, reported to prison on August 27 to begin serving his 5-year sentence. Mr. Eqbali was one of about twenty Bahais, and some…
Two Arrests in Shiraz
Source: hra-news, http://tinyurl.com/mznz2g7, http://tinyurl.com/kn9wn6p Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25s On the morning of September 1, security forces arrested Mr. Shahram Mansour at his home, and transferred him to the Ministry of Intelligence’s Facility 100 in Shiraz. They also…
Expulsion of a Member of the National Martial Arts Team and Head of the Jujutsu Association of Kermanshah Province Because of Conversion to the Baha’i Faith
Source: The Voice of Iranian Christians, http://goo.gl/iNqBu6 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to reports from the human rights activist group, the Voice of the Iranian Christian News Agency, Hamzeh Raziany, a former member of the…
A Letter from Fariborz Baghi, A Convicted Baha’i
Source: HRANA News Agency, http://goo.gl/dvv8Tc Translation by Iran Press Watch August 6, 2014 A Letter from Fariborz Baghi, A Convicted Baha’i My name is Fariborz Baghi. I am a resident of Yazd, a city in southern Iran.…
Violation of Baha’i Rights Continues, Ranging from the Destruction of Cemeteries to University Entrance Exams Not Being Accepted
Source: http://taghato.net/article/7659 Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: August 9, 2014 Taghato: Human Rights sources report the restart of the destruction of the old Baha’i cemetery in Shiraz and the arrest of four Baha’i citizens in…
Increase in Arrests Highlights Continuing Persecution of Baha’is in Iran
Source: Bahai World News Service, http://news.bahai.org/story/1015 19 August 2014 GENEVA — The arrest last week of five Baha’is in Tehran signals a rising tide of detainments and imprisonments of Baha’is in Iran in recent months. Since June,…
Sasha Eskandarian: Iran’s Persecution of the Baha’i Goes beyond the Grave
Source: National Post, http://goo.gl/UvSn0f Sasha Eskandarian, National Post | August 19, 2014 6:51 AM ET It’s not difficult for me to remember the horrible days of hardship I experienced as a Baha’i teenager, living in Shiraz, Iran, in…
Shahram Chiniyan Miandoaab Beaten and Placed in Solitary
Source: http://goo.gl/wvKpTH Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-24p August 20, 2014 Shahram Chiniyan Miandoaab, a Bahai shopkeeper from Tehran who is serving an 8-year sentence, and who is held in block 1 of Rajai Shahr prison, which…
Remembering Seyed Jamal Hosseini
Iran Press Watch was deeply saddened by the sudden and suspicious death of one of the founders of Human Rights Activists News Agency and its editor, Seyed Jamal Hosseini. Jamal was a noble champion of human rights…
Shayan Tafazoli Continues to Be Imprisoned in the Quarantine Section of Mashhad Prison
Source: http://goo.gl/jfVKCu Translation by Iran Press Watch HARANA News (HRA) – A Baha’i resident named Shayan Tafazoli, who was arrested approximately two months ago by the Intelligence and Security Office of the city of Mashhad, and…
Iran: Dozens Unlawfully Held in City’s Prisons
Source: http://goo.gl/0wgcQH Others Imprisoned on Suspect Charges, Trials AUGUST 18, 2014 (Beirut) – Several dozen prisoners in a northern city are serving prison terms for exercising their basic rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report…
Baha’i War Veteran with 25% Disability Unable to Enrol Children at School in Shiraz
Source: HRANA at http://goo.gl/Z0IRPS Translation by Sen’s daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-243 The administration at the government-run Martyr Khonsari secondary school in Shiraz has refused to enroll the children of Behrouz Farzandi Ardekani because the family are Baha’is. Mr. Ardekani is…
Religious Representatives in Netherlands Respond to Iranian Cleric’s Call for Coexistence
Source: Bahai World News Service, http://news.bahai.org/story/1014 THE HAGUE — Fourteen representatives of faith organizations gathered here on 2 July to study the statement made by Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani last April on religious coexistence in Iran. Ayatollah Tehrani gifted an…
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