Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On December 27, 1981, eight Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the…
Baha’i Martyr
Payman Sobhani: The Untold Story of a Baha’i Teenager Killed by Fanatics in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti In 2008, the Baha’i International Community published the names of 221 Iranian Baha’is who had been murdered or executed in the three decades since the Islamic Revolution. The youngest on this list…
Bahman Samandari: The Baha’i Executed 24 Hours After His Arrest
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Ebrahim Raisi, then Tehran’s Revolutionary Prosecutor, now President Raisi responded in a 1992 interview to United Nations accusations regarding persecution of the Baha’is. “The execution of a Baha’i by the name Bahman Samandari…
My Wife’s Grandfather Was Executed for His Baha’i Faith. Iran Hasn’t Changed Enough.
Source: religionnews.com By James Samimi Farr As I watch the grim carousel that is the nuclear talks go round and round again, I think about all that may hinge on them, including, perhaps, the future of Iran’s…
They Didn’t Need Warrants
Source: www.lrb.co.uk By Saleem Vaillancourt Forty years ago the Islamic Republic of Iran admitted that it had executed my great-uncle. He was 65 years old. Mehdi Amin-Amin was survived by his wife, daughter, two grandsons and three siblings, including my…
Baha’i Assemblies After the Revolution: Arrest, Torture and Execution
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On January 4, 1982, in the turbulent years after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, seven members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Iran were executed in Tehran. Who were they?…
After 8 Years of Sabotage and Judicial Procrastination, The Murder Case of a Baha’i, Ataollah Rezvani, is Being Investigated
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ The murder case of Ata’u’llah Rezvani, a Baha’i citizen of Bandar Abbas, has been referred to Branch 6 of the Bandar Abbas Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office…
Remembering Two Baha’i Nurses Who Were Murdered Because of Their Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education has repeatedly pointed to a serious shortage of physicians and nurses in Iran over the last several years. The shortage became even more glaring…
Narrative of an Execution: 17-Year-Old Mona
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On Saturday, June 18, 1983, an hour after the weekly women’s visitation at the Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, Mona Mahmudinejad and nine other Baha’i women…
A Paradise for Murderers
Source: news.gooya.com By Bijan Masumian Translation by Iran Press Watch The root of the repression and murder of religious minorities in Iran can be traced back to the spread of religious hatred by Muslim extremists who…
Murder of a Baha’i in Yazd and Inquiry About the Rights of Baha’is
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
Kavian Milani: Message to the Torturer
Source: en.iranwire.com Thursday 28 April 2016 Message the Torturers and the Murderers Each of us have perhaps found ourselves in a situation where we have been bullied by somebody in a powerful position, and remained silent out…
The Surreal Upside-Down World of the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Ominous Arrest of Mr. Navid Aghdasi
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Payam Akhavan, Professor of International Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Photo of Navid Aghdasi) Imagine an upside-down world in which murderers enjoy impunity while those seeking justice are punished. Sadly, this surreal world of inverted…
Iranian Daughter Remembers Kidnapped Father
Source: www.richmond-news.com Susan Mottahedeh Richmond News | August 28, 2015 09:52 AM Jinous Nourinejad’s father disappeared in 1980 during religious and political conflicts in Iran. Jinous…
“Why are they Hiding the Truth?”: The Murder of Ataollah Rezvani
Source: en.iranwire.com Tuesday 25 August 2015 Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour It has been two years since the unexplained murder of Ataollah Rezvani, a 52-year-old Baha’i citizen of Bandar Abbas. According to forensic investigations, “the victim did not show any…
A Letter by Rozita Eshraghi, Whose Three Family Members Were Executed in Shiraz Because They Were Baha’is
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch by Rozita Eshraghi Monday September 1, 2014 This Letter of Suffering is addressed to all who claim that no Baha’is have been imprisoned or discriminated against due to their…
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