Source: iranhumanrights.org The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this right to families who’ve lost loved ones from state oppression. Public mourning can expose and embarrass regimes…
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Source: iranhumanrights.org The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this right to families who’ve lost loved ones from state oppression. Public mourning can expose and embarrass regimes…
Source: www.sbs.com.au Fearing for their lives, Pantea Motearefi and her family fled Iran in 1993. But 26 years later, Baha’is in Iran are still subjected to fierce religious persecution. Pantea Motearefi and her family were fast…
Source: www.arabnews.com RAY HANANIA CHICAGO: The Iranian regime has sanctioned a “campaign of hate” to fuel public animosity against the country’s Baha’i religious community, Baha’i officials told Arab News. Anthony Vance, Baha’i public affairs director in…
Source: english.aawsat.com Washington – Rana Abtar The US House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a draft resolution condemning the state-sponsored persecution of the Baha’i community of Iran in a bipartisan move. Voices are mounting…
Source: www.bic.org A committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has again called on the Iranian government to end its discrimination of minorities in Iran, including the Baha’i community, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. Similar…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On Tuesday, November 16, Baha’i citizen Shiva Khalili was arrested after being summoned and appearing at Branch 1 of the Public and Revolutionary Court of Babol. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On Monday, November 8, 2021, six businesses own by Baha’i citizens in Qaemshahr were sealed by the agents of the Places Administration. These businesses were…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Court of Appeals in Yazd Province recently sentenced Baha’i citizens Amin Zolfaghari, Mahboobeh Misaghian, Mitra Bandi Amirabadi and Hiva Yazdan Mehdi Abadi to a total of 32 months in prison. According to HRANA,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Siavash Sobhanian, a Baha’i citizen living in Damavand, has been sentenced to 2 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of this city. Mr. Sobhanian…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Eight Baha’i citizens of Shiraz, Sedigheh Aghdasi, Alieh Foroutan, Siamak Honarvar, Qassem Masoumi, Saeed Ettehad and Behrooz Farzandi Shiraz, were sentenced by the First Branch…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The court of appeals in Mazandaran Province recently upheld Baha’i citizen Manijeh Azamian’s one year prison sentence. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, 52-year-old Azamian had previously been sentenced on…
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Bahais, Barred from Attending universities, (enduring) Forced Closure of their Businesses, Desecration of Baha’i Cemeteries; are which part of their civil right? Mohammad Hadi Erfanian Kaseb, Judiciary Lawyer for…
Source: www.canada.ca From: Global Affairs Canada Statement October 27, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada Today, Global Affairs Canada issued the following statement: “Worldwide, the right to practise, choose and change one’s religion or belief…
Source: finance.yahoo.com Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On Monday, October 25th, House Resolution 744 (H.Res.744), condemning the state-sponsored persecution of the Baha’i community of Iran, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives. The…
Source: iranwire.com Arsalan Yazdani, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was recently released from prison after his sudden arrest by security agents on September 1 this year. The graphic designer has taken to Instagram to explain what happened –…
Source: oberlinreview.org I am a Baha’i, a member of a world religion whose adherents strive for unity, peace, and social transformation. Because of the ongoing persecution of 350,000 other Baha’is in Iran, including my family members,…