Source: irannewswire.org The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced three members of a Bahai family to a total of seven years of prison yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the three Bahais were identified…
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#ItsTheirLand Twitter Storm in Support of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com A tempest of tweets is expected to sweep the Internet today and tomorrow, 22 and 23 February, in support of the Baha’is in Ivel, a village in northern Iran, whose land has been confiscated by the…
A Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel
Source: www.wsj.com By Reza Afshari Followers of the Baha’i faith are persecuted at home but welcomed abroad. Israel is the last country where an Iranian raised in a Muslim family would have expected to find a…
“An Extraordinary Wave of Support”: Calls in Unison for Iran to End Persecution of Bahá’ís
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Bahá’ís in the Iranian farming village of Ivel. The…
Muslim Leaders and Former Canadian PM Denounce Confiscation of Baha’i Homes
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti A special court in Iran’s Mazandaran province, and subsequently an appeals court, have ruled that the recent confiscations of 27 homes owned by Baha’is in the village of Ivel by the Imam…
‘World Is Watching’ Iran’s Treatment of Baha’is
Source: www.winnipegfreepress.com By: John Longhurst Members of Winnipeg’s Baha’i community have welcomed an open letter from 45 former Canadian judges, justice ministers, and lawyers decrying human rights abuses in Iran. “Anytime we see a gesture like this,…
Baha’is in Ivel, Iran, Have No Right to Property
Source: www.bahai.se Iran’s systematic persecution of the Baha’is The Baha’is in Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, have been systematically persecuted by the authorities for the past 40 years. Alarming reports from Iran indicate that…
Open letter by Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel Decrying Iran’s Seizures of Baha’i Lands
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Canadians Object to Iran’s Seizures of Baha’i Lands
Source: www.rcinet.ca By Lynn Desjardins Several Canadians in the legal profession have written to Iran’s chief justice denouncing court orders legalizing the seizure of lands owned by members of the Baha’i religious minority. Members of this minority…
Sentencing of Eight Baha’is Sets Dismal New Legal Precedent
Source: iranwire.com On February 2, 2021, Branch Two of the Hormozgan Court of Appeal upheld the prison sentences of eight Baha’i citizens. The court, presided over by Judge Mashaleh Afsharpour and Counsel Ebrahim Mohammadi, rejected the…
Former Canadian Judges, Justice Ministers and Scholars Decry Iran’s Abuse of Baha’is in Open Letter to the Chief Justice
An Open Letter to the Chief Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi, We are a group of Canadians in the legal profession – including former Ministers of Justice and Attorneys-General,…
Former Canadian Judges, Justice Ministers and Scholars Decry Iran’s Abuse of Baha’is
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com EBRAHIM NOROOZI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More than 40 prominent members of Canada’s legal community, including former Supreme Court judges and justice ministers, have penned an open letter in order to draw attention to what they…
Five Baha’is Summoned to Covid-Hit Prison
Source: iranwire.com Five members of the Iranian Baha’i community living in Mashhad have been summoned to Vakilabad Prison to begin serving their sentences. According to an informed source who spoke to IranWire, that the names of…
German MP and Federal Government Commissioner for Global Freedom of Religion Calls for an End to the Discrimination and Persecution of Bahá’i Communities in Iran
Source: iran.bahai.de Press release On World Religion Day on 17 January 2021, Markus Grübel, Member of the German Parliament and Federal Government Commissioner for Global Freedom of Religion, calls for an end to the discrimination and…
Weekly Review of Censorship: A Baha’i Historian Jailed Because of His Faith
Source: iranwire.com Niloufar Rostami Touraj Amini, an Iranian writer and researcher of the Qajar era and Constitutional movement who is also a Baha’i, was taken to prison on January 29, to serve a six-month prison sentence…
Human Right NGO Urges Iranian Authorities to End All Forms of Persecution of Its Baha’i Citizens
Source: in.news.yahoo.com New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) A Delhi-based human rights organisation has urged Iranian authorities to end all forms of persecution of its Baha’i citizens, according to an official statement issued on Saturday. The Baha’i…
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