[HRANA] HRANA – Sonia Ahmadi*, a Baha’i resident of Mashhad who was released earlier with a promise of complete freedom, turned herself in at Vakilabad prison** to serve the remainder of her sentence. According to reports from the news organization Human Rights Activists…
[roozonline] Sunday, April 13 2014 A Conversation in Prison, The Story of their Trials and Tribulations Massoud Bastani, Rajai Shahr Prison Little Artin has no role in this story, but he is the pivotal point…
[Bahá’í World News Service] 15 April 2014 LONDON — Two senior leaders of the Church of England have praised the ground-breaking action of an Iranian ayatollah who last week called for religious “coexistence” by dedicating to the…
HRANA News Agency – the optometry shop of Afrasiyab Sobhani, a Baha’i imprisoned in Semnan*, has been shut down. According to reports, the news organization Human Rights Activists in Iran , in the wake of…
The year of Human Rights and the Rights of Baha’i Citizens Date: Wednesday 20, Farvardin 1393 (9 April, 2014) HARANA News – Heshmatollah Tabazadi¹ a journalist and political prisoner at the 12th Hall of Rajai…
[roozonline] Monday, March 7th 2014- Farvardin 18th 1393 Denial of the existence of the Prisoners and the Student Banned from Higher Education Baha’is in Iran are not discriminated against! By Niusha Saremi The head…
[HRANA] According to reporters from HRANA, the news organization of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Maziar Malaki, a Baha’i citizen from Birjand and a student in manufacturing machinery, was summoned by university security and asked…
[HRANA, Wednesday, April 9, 2014] For the last ten days, there has been no sign of whereabouts of Nika Kholousi, a Baha’i citizen of Iran. According to Human Right Activists News Agency (HRANA), there has…
Source: www.bbc.co.uk Translation by Iran Press Watch Niki Mahjoub [Originally published by BBC Persian on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 16:59 GMT] One day in the middle of class, our religion teacher asked, “Children, have you…
[International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran] In a rare statement to the Iranian media on April 6, 2014, Javad Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, admitted Baha’is in Iran are entitled…
[digarban] 20 Farvardin, 1393 – April 9, 2014 Sadeq Larijani*, Head of the Judicial System of Iran: We don’t have conflicts with Baha’is merely because someone is a Baha’i Sadeghi Larijani, Head of the Judicial…
[BBC Persian] Mohammad Javad Larijani*, the secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights, has rejected “any form of discrimination and violation of rights, due to being a Baha’i” in Iran, and said that people…
[ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency)] The lawyer for the 15 Baha’is said that the trial of her clients charged with propaganda against the regime will take place in the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz. Giti Pourfazel announced…
[Bahá’í World News Service] 7 April 2014 NEW YORK — In a symbolic and unprecedented move, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a prominent Muslim cleric in Iran, announced today that he has gifted to the Baha’is of the world…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Harana News Agency – On the Sunday morning of March 30th 2014, intelligence officers arrested two Baha’i residents of Mashhad by the names of Nava Kholousi and Nika…
[news.bahai.org, 16 Nov 2013] NEW YORK — The seven imprisoned Iranian Baha’i leaders have written a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, commenting on his proposed “Charter of Citizen’s Rights.” During his campaign for election earlier…
