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…
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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 –…
Prevention of burial of a Baha’i citizen in Mashhad
HRA News- On the morning of Monday Tir 28th [July 19th] , officers of “Behesht Reza” [i.e. the public cemetery] of Mashhad refused to release corps of a Baha’i woman named Marziyeh Gholamy (Pardel), who…
Semnan, Iran: The small city is a fertile breeding ground for anti-Baha’i activities
[Edior: Semnan seems to be a testing ground of systematic anti-Baha’i activities in form of persecution, arrests, refusal to education, and refusal of all community life including burial. Iran Press Watch has carried many stories…
Barring the burial of a deceased Baha’i
The Office of Protection of the city of Najaf-Abad has not delivered the body of a deceased Baha’i, Mrs. Puran Bahrampour, to her family to conduct her funeral. According to Human Rights Activists News Agency,…
Burial of a Deceased Baha’i Prevented
The following report was posted on the online site of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters on Friday, September 25, 2009, and appears below in translation: After the destruction in recent days of the Baha’i…
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