By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer Iranian authorities shut down the office of a human rights group led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Sunday as the group was preparing to honor a…
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US Department of State on UN General Assembly calls on Iran to meet Human Rights obligations
The following is the text of the Press Statement published by Sean McCormack, Spokesman for the US Department of State in Washington, DC, and dated December 19, 2008: The United States welcomes UN General Assembly…
Fired from Work for Being Baha'i
Human Rights Activists of Iran has published the following letter of a Baha’i employed by Iran National Broadcasting Agency (which is a state-run public broadcasting and presently is known as Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting,…
Center of Human Rights Defenders in Tehran is under Raid
Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in Europe and North America (IHRAG) reports that on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Center of Human Rights Defenders in Tehran was raided by…
Police Raid, Close Offices of Shirin Ebadi
Agence France Press (AFP) has just released the news that the Iranian authorities have closed down the offices of Nobel Laureate human rights defender Shirin Ebadi. TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian security forces have raided and…
Jews Undercover – Iran
Reporter: Mark Corcoran All religious and tribal minorities in Iran have lived under considerable pressures during the last 30 years and suffered various forms of discrimination and persecution. The Jews of Iran are no exception,…
Support Baha'i Students in Iran Video Contest
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Kayhan’s Shameful Attacks
Scurrilous attacks on the Faith continue to appear in Kayhan, one of the oldest and most influential newspapers in Iran. This daily newspaper is published by the Kayhan Institute and is currently managed by Hossein…
A Book Review: The Baha’is of Iran
Editor’s note: The following is a book review by Oliver Scharbrodt, with the citation: Oliver Scharbrodt (2008); Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel; The Baha’is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, London and New York: Routledge,…
Six American University Presidents Travel to Iran
By Davood N. Rahni, Ph.D. As a patriotic American with proud Persian heritage, I have followed with much exhilaration the recent travel to Iran by the presidents of the six national American universities. In an…
Update on Raids in Semnan
Iran Press Watch has learned through its contacts in Iran that indeed on 15 December 2008 agents of the Ministry of Intelligence launched a series of raids of the homes of some 13 Baha’is in…
Fuad Naeimi Continues to Languish in Prison
Fuad Naeimi is a prominent Baha’i organizer in Sari, in the province of Mazandaran. In September 2007, he was convicted of “being active in the Baha’i sect” and commenced his sentence on 29 May 2008, …
A Seminar against the Baha’i Faith
On Wednesday, 6 August 2008, the online journal Ayandih Roushan [“bright future”] reported that a seminar was held in the amphitheater of Qum’s Research Center for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). This seminar started…
Former Baha’i Center of Tehran Suffers Fire
Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported in Persian on Thursday, 11 December 2008, and this report appears below in translation: Today (Thursday), the amphitheater of the Art Center of the Organization for the Propagation of…
U.N. General Assembly expresses “deep concern” about human rights in Iran
By Baha’i World News Service 19 December 2007 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution expressing “deep concern” about “ongoing systematic violations of human rights” in Iran. Adopted by a…
Raid on Baha’i Homes in Semnan
As previously reported by this site, over the course of several days from 12 to 15 of December 2008, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence raided Baha’i homes in Semnan, in northern Iran and arrested…
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