[Justice4BahaiYouth, 23 Sep 2011] The Baha’i’s in Iran, the country’s largest religious minority, have been persecuted since the 1979 revolution. Thousands were arrested and hundreds executed. Today, over 100 Baha’i’s are unjustly imprisoned including seven…
[FreedomHouseDC, YoutTube, 26 Sep. 2011] Freedom House and the Baha’i External Affairs Office in Washington hosted a media briefing : “Education discrimination in Iran leads to creative use of technology by Bahai online university.” Freedom…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Desmons Tutu, José Ramos-Horta The forward progress of humankind in the last centuries has been fueled, more than any other factor, by increasing access to information, more rapid exchange of ideas, and in most…
[BWNS 28 Sep. 2011] GENEVA — Like many young people the world over, Shohreh Rowhani grew up with high hopes of a good university education. But now she has run up against a system which…
[It is surprising that AhramOnline news agency is still using condescending terms such as “Haifa-based sect” to refer to the Baha’i Faith when all news agencies, all NGO’s, Governments and Individuals use the proper reference,…
[BWNS 26 Sep 2011] NEW YORK — As a number of Baha’i educators appear in court in Iran, two Nobel Peace Prize winners have sharply criticized the Iranian government, comparing its actions to “the Dark Ages…
[Amnesty International, 12 Sep.2011] The Iranian authorities must immediately release one of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Abdolfattah Soltani, who was arrested on Saturday, Amnesty International said today. Soltani, a co-founder of the Centre…
[bahai.us, 16, Sep 2011] The lawyer preparing to defend Baha’is facing trial in Iran’s Revolutionary Court has been detained again. Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani was a senior member of the legal team representing the prisoners who…
Anthony Vance, Director of External Affairs, Baha’is of the United States “If your tea is too sweet, you can stir it the other way.” This kind of quip was typical of Mahmoud Badavam and of Persian…
[RAHANA 18 Sep. 2011] Ava Tavakoli, a student of Hormozgan University, has been expelled due to her Baha’i faith after 4 semesters.
[RAHANA 14 Sep. 2011] The prison sentence has been upheld for the Freedom Movement of Iran member Mehdi Gholizadeh.
[RAHANA 14 Sep. 2011] Four instructors of the Baha’i Distant Education University have been arrested after being summoned.
[Human Rights Europe, 12 Sep. 2011] Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has challenged Europe to practice what it preaches in its relations with neighbouring countries in the Mediterranean region. In his 9 September speech to the…
[EDU RIGHT, 18 Sep 2011] 18 September 2011 ( 27 Shahrivar 1390 ) Association for Freedom of Education – Natoli Derakhshan, a poet and a Baha’i, in an open letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme…
The 13tAnnual Report on International Religious Freedomfrom the U.S. Department of State names Iran “Country of Particular Concern” for religious repression. The report is extensive and covers some 204 countries. See here for the section…
(No. 253 – September 2, 2011 – 11:30 a.m. ET) Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement regarding reports that religious minorities in Iran continue to face persecution: “I note with regret…
