Source: policyoptions.irpp.org Geoffrey Cameron For 17 years in a row, a Canada-led UN resolution has condemned violations against Iran’s people. This voice of the international community matters. At the end of October, the UN General Assembly’s…
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For the Love of Their Country: The Murder of a Family Doctor
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti “Why are you asking so many times: why did you kill Dr. Vafa’i? Why did you kill the doctors? Why did you kill seven Baha’is? They were spies. … If Dr. Vafa’i helped people…
Home raids across Iran indicate alarming increase in human rights violations against Baha’is, says Baha’i International Community
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—30 November 2020—Over a hundred government agents raided the shops and homes of tens of Baha’is across Iran, on 22 November 2020, and demanded that they hand over their property deeds. The simultaneous raids…
A Baha’i Iranian Artist Addresses Persecution in Paintings
Source: iranwire.com Maryam Safajoo, an artist, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986, uses her work to depict the many forms of persecution faced by the Baha’i religious minority in Iran. Safajoo, a Baha’i herself, now lives in Champaign,…
How “Reformists” Tried to Placate the UN Over Discrimination Against Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have been banned from entering higher education for forty years, since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. This mass state-sanctioned infringement of human rights can be separated into…
ADL Task Force on Middle Eastern Minorities Condemns the Raids in Iran Targeting Baha’i Community
Source: www.adl.org New York, NY, November 24, 2020 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today condemned the recent raids targeting Iran’s vulnerable Baha’i community. According to reports, on November 22, homes of tens…
Baha’is Barred From Higher Education In Iran
Source: en.radiofarda.com “Deficient filing” is a familiar term to Baha’i youth in Iran who want to enter university and carry on their education like any other citizen enjoying one of their most fundamental rights. Iranian Baha’is…
Where can I complain about this suffering?
Source: www.kaleme.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Abstract: It may be said that “house-raid” does not demand all these agitations! This could only be said by those whose homes have never been raided; otherwise, those…
Sources: Iran Raids Homes of 50 Baha’i Families
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – Iran is intensifying its campaign of harassment against its Baha’i religious minority, carrying out what appears to be one of the largest coordinated raids of Baha’i homes…
Baha’i Homes Reportedly Raided In Cities Across Iran
Source: en.radiofarda.com Activists say Iranian security forces have raided the homes of dozens of Baha’is in several cities across the country, confiscating their personal belongings. The reason for the raids on November 22 was not immediately…
Breaking: An All-Out Assault on Baha’is Across Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On the morning of Sunday, November 22, in simultaneous operations in various cities across Iran, security agents ransacked the homes of tens of Baha’is. Their personal effects, mobile phones, computers, laptops and…
Treasury Targets Vast Supreme Leader Patronage Network and Iran’s Minister of Intelligence
Source: home.treasury.gov WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against a key patronage network for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation (Bonyad Mostazafan,…
Baha’i University Candidates Summoned for Interrogation
Source: iranwire.com Young Baha’i would-be students who passed this year’s national university entrance exams in Iran have been hauled in by education officials for questioning. On Wednesday, November 11, a number of Baha’i candidates were summoned…
UN Passes Resolution Condemning Human Rights Violations in Iran
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—18 November 2020—In spite of the ongoing pandemic, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly considered and approved a resolution today calling on Iran to observe human rights for all its citizens,…
This Year Too, Baha’i Citizens Are Not Allowed to Enter University; Systematic Discrimination in the Homeland
Source: www.zeitoons.com Shiva Nazarahari Translation by Iran Press Watch This year’s controversial nationwide university entrance exams, in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak and after several delays, was carried out in the middle of the summer.…
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Meets Baha’is to Express Concern Over Human Rights Violations in Iran and Yemen
Source: www.bic.org BRUSSELS—28 October 2020—Ann Linde, Foreign Minister of Sweden, met virtually last week with representatives of the Baha’i community of Sweden and the Baha’i International Community’s Brussels and Geneva offices to discuss the persecution of Baha’is in…
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