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…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…