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…
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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…
Imprisonment, Confiscation, Denial of Most Basic Civil Rights: A Surge in Persecution of the Baha’is in Iran
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — Iranian authorities are preventing Baha’is across the country from obtaining national identification cards, while a series of home raids, confiscations, arrests, and attacks on properties have unjustly targeted Baha’is. These developments…
Property of Baha’i Confiscated
Source: www.iranpressnews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Confiscation of the property of a wealthy Baha’i family by the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order As usual, the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO, or simply Setad) is…
Plot to Seize Property of Saman Missaghi and Ongoing Arrest Issues
Source: shahrvandyar Mr. Saman Missaghi is a Baha’i citizen who traveled to Mahabad more than six months ago to sell his father’s apartment. He was confronted by a Revolutionary Guard, who was his tenant, who…
The Untold Story of Baha’is of Kata
Source: www.manoto.news Translation by Iran Press Watch Editor’s note: Archives of Baha’i Persecution in Iran has recently released documents about the lives of Baha’is of Kata village in Iran. These Baha’is lived and worked with their Muslim partners in…
A Baha’i-Owned Business Shut Down and Confiscated in Karaj
Source: humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch May 22, 2017 Synopsys: The business of Farhad Samadani, a Baha’i resident of Karaj in Alborz province, was closed and sealed from use by ten officers from the Office…