Respecting Legitimate Freedoms and Protecting Citizens’ Rights: Excerpt from the Iranian legal framework. [Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch has recently published a number of articles by qualified authors in an effort to make the Iranian…
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The Trial of the Yaran under Iranian Criminal Procedure: “The Justice of God” or Procedural Injustice?
THE TRIAL OF THE YARAN UNDER IRANIAN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: “THE JUSTICE OF GOD” OR PROCEDURAL INJUSTICE? by Christopher Buck, Ph.D., J.D. [Editor: Iran Press Watch welcomes back Dr. Christopher Buck, a distinguished legal scholar. While most writers…
Ban on Iran paper over Baha'i photo lifted
Editor’s Note: Iranian authorities banned Hamshahri, the popular daily, for using a photo of the Baha’i House of Worship (temple) in an ad by travel companies to promote tourism. It appears that the widespread criticism…
More than 20,000 killed over 150 years
Editor’s Note: The following it the third and final portion of last Saturday’s publication in Publico, Portugal’s popular newspaper. The first two portions were published ipw1 and ipw2 By Publico Baha’is have been persecuted in Iran since the…
“Faith Does Not Allow Them to Be Afraid of Death”
Editor’s Note: As mentioned earlier (ipw), last Saturday the popular Portuguese newspaper Publico published a three part series related to the condition of the Baha’is in Iran. The second portion of that article appears below…
Baha’is, Superstitionism and the Iranian Identity (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: The first part of this brilliant essay was published here. The following is the second and final portion of this essay. By Aram Anahid The Shi’ite story of occultation is not the only mystifying…
“They can drink tea – that’s not forbidden”
Editor’s Note: The following article was posted on Forum 18 News Service http://www.forum18.org on Thursday, September 24, 2009. While it is related to events in Uzbekistan, and not about the Baha’i community of Iran, it…
Shiva Nazarahari is released
The following news was posted on the online site of Human Rights Activists News Agency on Wednesday, September 23, 2009: A few minutes ago, Shiva Nazarahari, a human rights activist was released from incarceration in…
“Crime” of being a Baha’i is paid in jail
Editor’s Note: Publico (www.publico.pt) is considered the most influential daily newspaper in Portugal. Last week, its Foreign Desk senior reporter, Margarida Santos Lopes, interviewed Mr. Iraj Kamalabadi, the brother of imprisoned Fariba Kamalabadi, regarding the…
Baha’is, Superstitionism and the Iranian Identity (Part 1)
By Aram Anahid Until recently, whenever the word “Baha’i” was mentioned in Iran it was simply to reinforce the claim that the members of the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority were foreign agents. During the…
IHRDC Releases Witness Statements by Bloggers and Cyber-Journalists
Editor’s Note: On September 14, 2009, IHRDC published the following Press Release: New Haven, Connecticut – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) today published witness statements by three Iranian bloggers and cyber-journalists who were…
When Baha'is are free, then all Iranians will be
Editor’s Note: Prof Hamid Dabashi is the author of Iran: A People Interrupted. He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. The following commentary appeared on…
We will celebrate the end of religious despotism
Editor’s Note: Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush is one of the most prominent Iranian political philosophers, intellectuals, religious scholars and writers. He is a former professor at the University of Tehran (bio). Last Wednesday, he published an…
A glimpse into the Baha’i seven’s coming trial
Editor’s Note: The following story was posted on Los Angeles Times online site on Saturday, September 12, 2009: A trial date has been set for seven leaders of the Bahai community in Iran who have…
IHRDC Newsletter
Iran Press Watch is pleased to bring to the notice of its readers the latest Newsletter published by Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Topics covered in this issue include: Election Unrest Continues Number of Dead…
Forced Closure of Baha’i Businesses
As reported previously by Iran Press Watch (IPW1, IPW2 and IPW3), on July 8, 2009, around 4 pm in the afternoon, four agents of the Information office of the Ministry of Intelligence of the city of Sari, in…
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