Mr. Reza’i (1) told his friend that he wrote this poem for the friends who take part in Study Circles outside Iran. He explained the imagery in the poem as follows: the Baha’is of the…
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Leva Khanjani Freed from Evin Prison
Source:HRANA, http://goo.gl/TUPblw Translation by Sen’s Daily: http://goo.gl/W2OEyn Leva Khanjani, a Bahai excluded from tertiary education, has been freed from Evin prison after serving most of a two-year sentence. She was arrested on January 3, 2010, along…
Iran’s Repressed Religious Minorities Using Internet To Practice Faith
Source: http://www.payvand.com/news/14/jun/1152.html By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL Majzooban.org, a website dedicated to news and information about the Gonabadi dervishes in Iran, has been blocked more than 40 times since its launch in 2007. Iranian authorities have also…
How a 19th-Century Persian Faith Became the Second-Most Common Religion in Our State
Source: http://goo.gl/WZbguJ Why So Many Bahá’í? By Paul Bowers @ccpnews A map purporting to show the second-largest religion in each state appeared on the Washington Post‘s GovBeat blog early this month, and it made a surprising claim: Of all 50…
Letter from the Baha’i Professors in Rajai-Shahr Prison to the Country’s Intellectuals
Source: http://www.irangreenvoice.com/article/2014/jun/12/44119 Translation by Iran Press Watch The Green Freedom Call Date: June 12, 2014 In a letter to Iran’s intellectuals from Rajai-Shahr Prison, a group of professors, managers and associates of the Baha’i Institute for…
On Three Continents Prominent Muslims Denounce Persecution of Iran’s Baha’is, Call for Religious Coexistence
Source: Bahai World News Service, news.bahai.org/story/1009 17 June 2014 PARIS — In the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, prominent Muslims have spoken out recently against the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, denouncing the religious intolerance…
Threatening Anti-Baha’i Posters Distributed in Yazd, Iran
Source: Bahai World News Service, http://news.bahai.org/story/1010 18 June 2014 GENEVA — A highly inflammatory and threatening flier calling Baha’is “godless” was distributed in the city of Yazd, Iran, last week on the eve of an important…
Susan Tebyaniyan’s Irregular Detention Continues
Source: HRANA, goo.gl/2UbmpM Translation from Sen’s Daily, goo.gl/zOGIM4 Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested 17 days ago in her home, and has been held since then, without clarification of her status, in Semnan’s…
A Heart-Felt Note from a Baha’i Youth from Tabriz, Iran
Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/5y8K90 Translation by Iran Press Watch (Regarding the issues of educational and economic discrimination, and even the right of burial) Saturday June 14, 2014 I am a Baha’i citizen residing in Tabriz…
An Ayatollah in Iran Takes an Unorthodox Step in Support of Baha’is
[www.internationalpolicydigest.org] A few weeks ago, a senior clergyman in Iran, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi Tehrani, did the unthinkable. He joined a gathering of human rights activists commemorating the sixth anniversary of the incarceration of the seven-person leadership group of…
FPI Fact Sheet: Iran’s Human Rights Violations under Rouhani
[foreignpolicyi.org] By FPI Senior Policy Analyst Patrick Christy & Policy Director Robert Zarate While U.S. policymakers and lawmakers are focused on reversing Iran’s nuclear threat, Iran continues to pose other serious challenges to America’s national security…
A Doctor Remembers His Days in Prison With Iran’s Unjustly Persecuted Baha’is
[globalvoicesonline.org] This guest post was written by Dr. Kamiar Alaei to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of the “Yaran”, seven leaders from the Baha’i, a persecuted minority in Iran. The Yaran – five men and two women – are serving 20…
Baha’i Holocaust: Why, How, and To What Extent?
[khodnevis.org] 05 June 2014, by Majid Mohammadi After three decades of atrocities against Baha’is, Khamenei put an official government stamp on this oppression: “All believers should confront the trickeries of the misguided Baha’i sect……
Rouhani’s Human Rights Record Shows No Improvement
[albawaba.com] by Irwin Cotler The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime – nuclear, terrorist, incitement, and – in particular…
For the Bahá’ís Imprisoned in Iran, Freedom and Human Rights Seem Remote
[newstatesman.com] by Nazila Ghanea Seven Bahá’ís – members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, persecuted by the government for decades – have now spent six years in prison for practising their religion. It has been…
Rouhani Is No ‘Moderate’ When It Comes to Human Rights
[jpost.com] A number of human rights abuses in Iran have continued unabated – or have even intensified – under Rouhani’s “moderate” presidency. The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded…
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