Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — The Bahá’í International Community (BIC) has launched a new website and Instagram page as a hub for collecting diverse contributions to the “Our Story Is One” campaign, which marks 40 years since 10 Bahá’í…
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#OurStoryIsOne Campaign Unites Baha’i Executions and Gender Equality in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti June 18, 1983, marks a haunting chapter of intolerance and injustice in Iran’s history. Ten Baha’i women, whose only crime was their religious faith, were hanged in Shiraz’s Chowgan Square, after facing an…
Let’s Make Our Story One – Before It’s Too Late
Source: iranwire.com SHABNAM MOINIPOUR Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranians were either ecstatic or silent. Their charismatic leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had won a revolution that they thought would bring them sunshine and roses. The…
BIC Geneva: Campaign honors Bahá’í women executed in Iran 40 years ago and highlights principle of equality
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — June 18, 2023 will mark 40 years since the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out a chilling act of oppression: 10 Bahá’í women were hanged in a single night in…
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…
Documentary Shows Trial of Executed Baha’is
Source: news.bahai.org 21 October 2015 Previously unseen footage of the 1981 trial of members of the governing body of the Baha’i community in Iran has been broadcast for the first time as part of a documentary…
An Assembly Executed
Source: aasoo.org This film is shortened video of a trial held in 1981 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court at Evin Prison in Iran. It is the main segment of the trial, held in 1981, of seven…
The Spiritual Assembly that Vanished
Source: bbc.com/persian Sepehr Atefi 11 October 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch On 11 November 1979, Dr. Alimorad Davoodi, secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the Baha’is of Iran, and professor of philosophy…
August 21st: The Anniversary of the Arrest of a Group of Elected Baha’i Officials
Source: Tavaana: E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society Translation by Iran Press Watch Thirty-five years ago, on a day like this Kambiz Sadegh Zadeh and ten other elected Baha’i officials were arrested. On his personal Facebook…
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