Source: iranwire.com Mehrangiz Kar Translation by Iran Press Watch The horrible events of recent days in Iran are so fastidiously attacking our minds and souls that it makes us ruthlessly welcome the news of a new…
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Trials of Sixty-Five Baha’is in Six Months
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch “The Appeals Court upheld my original sentence and that of five other Baha’is in absentia. The lawyer has asked us not to report this publicly for now. He…
Detention, Home Search, and Sealing of Abbas Taef’s Baha’i-Owned Business
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abbas Taef, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was detained on Friday by agents of the Office of Intelligence and taken to an unknown location. Officers…
Many Baha’i Homes Searched, Some Arrested in Tehran and Karaj
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Increasing Pressure on the Baha’i Community HRANA- Yesterday, in a coordinated effort, the homes of many Baha’is were searched by security officers in Tehran and Karaj. In addition to…
In Iran, Religious Minority Children Are To Stay Silent If They Want To Study
Source: www.forbes.com Ewelina U. Ochab In early September 2019, Iranian news reported that the Iranian Minister for Education had ruled that if students mention that they belong to an officially unrecognized religion, like the Baha’i faith, this can…
Proposed Bill “Penalization of the Perverse Sects”: The Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Leap to Legalize Investigation of Beliefs
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Moin Khazaeli The news is short and shocking: Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly intends to review a bill, by virtue of which, if passed, the “investigation of beliefs” in its true sense will be legalized,…
Isfahan Prison: Repeat Interrogation of Baha’i Farhang Sahba by IRGC’s Intelligence Unit
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Farhang Sahba, a Baha’i citizen held in Isfahan prison, was recently transferred to Isfahan IRGC Intelligence Unit for questioning. His transfer came at a time…
Forgotten Discrimination in Iranian President’s Speech
Source: www.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Announcing the results of the Nationwide University Entrance Examination, as in previous years, Baha’i applicants were put off with “Incomplete Records”. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began…
Samin Maghsoudi Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison by Second Court of Appeal
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The Tehran Province Court of Appeals has upheld the sentence of a Baha’i resident of Tehran and communicated the sentence to her. This Baha’i citizen was sentenced…
2019 Entrance Exam – Depriving Baha’i Students of Higher Education
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency- This year, a number of Baha’i participants in the National Entrance Exam (NEE) have been denied access to higher education for their religious beliefs. The reason…
Two Baha’is Sentenced to Total of 12 Years Imprisonment
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Two Baha’i citizens residing in Kerman, Kiana Rezvani and Kimia Mostafavi, were each sentenced to six years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of that…
22 Iranian Baha’is Were Denied Higher Education in September
Source: www.en-hrana.org At least 22 Baha’i students have reportedly been denied entry to universities in Iran despite successfully passing the national admissions test. These Baha’i applicants received a short message with the content: “Dear applicant, there…
Mitra Badrnejad Sentenced to Imprisonment
Source: www.en-hrana.org Mitra Badrnejad, a Baha’i resident of Ahvaz, was sentenced to a one-year prison term by the Khuzestan Appeal’s Court. In October 2018, she was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Branch 2 of…
Minister of Education: Students from Unrecognized Religions not Allowed to Study
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch “If students state that they belong to a religion that is not officially recognized, this expression of belief may be considered propaganda, and they would be banned from school,”…
Children of Iran’s “Unofficial” Religious Minorities Ordered to Keep Quiet
Source: iranwire.com Iran’s new education minister has used the launch of a new country-wide project as an opportunity to strike out against Iran’s religious minorities, potentially giving schools greater freedom to discriminate against non-Shia Muslim students.…
Property of Baha’i Confiscated
Source: www.iranpressnews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Confiscation of the property of a wealthy Baha’i family by the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order As usual, the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO, or simply Setad) is…
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