Source: Narges Mohammadi On June 16th, a 29-year-old Baha’i woman entered the women’s ward after enduring 48 days of confinement in the secure cells of ward 209.Her charge was attempting to bury her grandmother.Shadi Shahidzadeh…
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Jailed Baha’is Endure Coercion and Await Verdicts
Source: iranwire.com Four imprisoned members of the Baha’i religious minority in Iran have been subjected to coercive measures by interrogators, pressuring them to make confessions on camera, IranWire reports. The actions occurred during the trial of…
Detained Baha’is Taken to Revolutionary Court as Deceased Buried Improperly
Source: iranwire.com The cases of four Baha’i citizens, Shadi Shahidzadeh, Valiullah Ghadamian, Mansour Amini and Ataullah Zafar, have been transferred to Tehran Revolutionary Court after two weeks of detention in the notorious Ward 209 of…
Baha’i Burial Rites Denied; Four Baha’i Citizens Arrested in Tehran
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to reports, on Tuesday, May 1, 2023, Ministry of Intelligence officials raided the four separate homes of Baha’i citizens residing in Tehran and arrested four individuals. At…
Updated: Fifth Improper Burial of a Baha’i by Iranian Officials
Source: iranwire.com Officials in Iran have buried another deceased Baha’i citizen without notifying the family or allowing for a Baha’i religious ceremony. The body of Maryam Moinipour, a 92-year-old Baha’i citizen who passed away in…
Baha’is Forcibly Buried in Khavaran Cemetery in Tehran and Four Arrested in Connection With the Cemetery
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—4 May 2023—The Baha’i International Community is deeply distressed that, in the midst of widespread suffering of Iranians, an agent of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, Masoud Momeni, is continuing to forcibly bury more…
Oppressed in Life and Persecuted in Death: Baha’is Prevented From Dignified Burials in Their Own Cemetery
Source: ca.sports.yahoo.com Geneva, April 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A brazen and barbaric act by the Iranian authorities has emerged in recent days in Tehran. A deceased Baha’i was buried on 30 March at Khavaran…
Baha’is Prevented by Ministry of Intelligence Agent from Burials in Their Own Cemetery
Source: iranwire.com A deceased Baha’i in Tehran, Behzad Majidi, was buried on 30 March at Khavaran cemetery, as IranWire first reported last week, without the cemetery officials observing Baha’i funeral rites, without notifying the family, and…
Oppressed in Life and Persecuted in Death: Baha’is Prevented from Dignified Burials in their Own Cemetery
Source: www.bic.org Persian translation here GENEVA—3 April 2023—A brazen and barbaric act by the Iranian authorities has emerged in recent days in Tehran. A deceased Baha’i was buried on 30 March at Khavaran cemetery near Tehran…
Denial of Burial for 44 Baha’is in Tabriz
Source: Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Translation by Iran Press Watch The supervisors of the biggest cemetery in Tabriz, named Vadi Rahmat, from 2011 until now have denied burial in the cemetery to 44 Baha’is. According…
Burial Denied to a Baha’i in Ahvaz
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a “BahaiNews” report, a deceased Baha’i citizen was denied burial rights in the Baha’i cemetery in the city of Ahvaz for six days. Eventually the deceased…
Five Days Since the Death of a Baha’i, Authorities Have Not Issued a Burial Permit
Source: BahaiNews 1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, the body of Ms. Rezvanieh Nabavi Dehkharghani, a Baha’i citizen, is still being kept in the cold storage unit at the Vadi-e Rahmat Cemetery…
Why Are Burial Rights Being Denied to a Baha’i in Iran?
11 JAN 2015, POSTED BY ALISON LESLEY Source: www.worldreligionnews.com/issues/why-are-burial-rights-being-denied-to-a-bahai-in-iran SHAMEL BINA PASSED AWAY IN OCTOBER 2014, BUT HIS REMAINS ARE UNBURIED BECAUSE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE REFUSING BURIAL RIGHTS. What should have been a period of mourning for most…
Two Months in the Morgue: One Facet of Campaign to Make Iranian Baha’is Invisible
Source: Baha’i World News Service 29 December 2014 GENEVA — The body of a Baha’i has been held in the morgue for nearly two months in the large, southern Iranian city of Ahvaz because local…
Even in death, Iran's Baha'is face persecution
[BWNS, 19 Jan. 2012] GENEVA — Eighteen years ago, Baha’is in the Iranian city of Sanandaj were allocated a one-hectare parcel of barren land at the side of a road for use as a cemetery. This…
In new affront, authorities say they will bury an Iranian Baha'i as a Muslim
[BWNS, 10 Aug 2011] GENEVA — In an outrageous new incident of religious discrimination, authorities in the city of Tabriz, Iran, have refused to allow Baha’is to bury a relative in accordance with Baha’i law –…
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