Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—25 August 2021—A fresh wave of economic strangulation is being unleashed against the Baha’is in Iran, as the Iranian authorities move to confiscate properties belonging to six Baha’is in the province of Semnan.…
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Australian farmers rally in support of Baha’i ‘farming brothers and sisters’ in wake of Iran land seizures
Source: www.abc.net.au Australian and New Zealand farmers have launched a campaign in support of Baha’i families in northern Iran after a court order declared their ownership of farmland — which has been in their families for generations — to be…
#ItsTheirLand: Unprecedented reaction makes voice of persecuted Bahá’ís in an Iranian village global
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — A global campaign in support of the persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran has generated an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity from officials at the United Nations and the European Union, statesmen, government officials, religious figures…
Farmers, Agricultural Scientists, Policy Makers Address Iran’s Chief Justice and Minister of Agriculture
Source: news.bahai.org SYDNEY — Farmers as well as agricultural scientists and policy makers from Australia, Africa and North America have joined the global outcry at the unjust confiscation of lands belonging to Bahá’í farmers in…
Canadian Legal Luminaries Sign Letter Accusing Iranian Courts of Persecuting Baha’i Faith
Source: www.cbc.ca Evan Dyer A group that includes Brian Mulroney and Jody Wilson-Raybould is denouncing confiscation of Baha’i homes The rulings of a court in a rural corner of northeastern Iran have brought together a Who’s…
“An Extraordinary Wave of Support”: Calls in Unison for Iran to End Persecution of Bahá’ís
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Bahá’ís in the Iranian farming village of Ivel. The…
Muslim Leaders and Former Canadian PM Denounce Confiscation of Baha’i Homes
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti A special court in Iran’s Mazandaran province, and subsequently an appeals court, have ruled that the recent confiscations of 27 homes owned by Baha’is in the village of Ivel by the Imam…
Baha’is in Ivel, Iran, Have No Right to Property
Source: www.bahai.se Iran’s systematic persecution of the Baha’is The Baha’is in Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, have been systematically persecuted by the authorities for the past 40 years. Alarming reports from Iran indicate that…
Open letter by Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel Decrying Iran’s Seizures of Baha’i Lands
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Canadians Object to Iran’s Seizures of Baha’i Lands
Source: www.rcinet.ca By Lynn Desjardins Several Canadians in the legal profession have written to Iran’s chief justice denouncing court orders legalizing the seizure of lands owned by members of the Baha’i religious minority. Members of this minority…
Former Canadian Judges, Justice Ministers and Scholars Decry Iran’s Abuse of Baha’is in Open Letter to the Chief Justice
An Open Letter to the Chief Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi, We are a group of Canadians in the legal profession – including former Ministers of Justice and Attorneys-General,…
Former Canadian Judges, Justice Ministers and Scholars Decry Iran’s Abuse of Baha’is
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com EBRAHIM NOROOZI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More than 40 prominent members of Canada’s legal community, including former Supreme Court judges and justice ministers, have penned an open letter in order to draw attention to what they…
Land Confiscation and Mass Displacement of Baha’is in Iran
Source: opa.bahai.ca Two Iranian courts issued orders that declared ownership of lands by 27 Baha’is in the village of Ivel to be illegal. Recent rulings decided that all properties belonging to Baha’is in the village of…
Security Forces Confiscate Baha’i Lands by Citing Clerics
Source: www.independentpersian.com Translation by Iran Press Watch By Amir Soltanzadeh Writer and Journalist Seizure of land with Title Deeds in Roshankooh village under excuse of Protecting Natural Resources Recently, the Natural Resources Department of Mazandaran Province…
Iran, Where National Security Means Confiscating a Girl’s Piano
Source: www.macleans.ca Fifteen-year-old Nawal Talebi saw her parents imprisoned and her beloved musical instrument carted off as Tehran steps up its persecution of minorities Maybe it was the piano. Maybe that explains it. Maybe it was…
Sana’a Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Yemeni Baha’i
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—23 March 2020—Despite a significant humanitarian crisis and mounting health concerns in Yemen, an appeals court in Sana’a yesterday upheld a religiously-motivated death sentence against Hamed bin Haydara, a Baha’i imprisoned since 2013. After…
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