Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have faced many forms of systematic discrimination and harassment over the past four decades, including deportation, educational restrictions, detention, harassment, torture, imprisonment and even execution. The burial of Baha’i…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 April 2021—Continuing Iran’s decades-long campaign of persecution of its Baha’i community from cradle to grave, the Iranian authorities have now banned the Baha’is of Tehran from burying their loved ones in a space…
Source: en.radiofarda.com They go from cemetery to cemetery, looking for unmarked graves. Wherever there is one, they squat over it, hoping that their children might be resting in peace down there. They mark the tombs with…
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ostanwire- Some reports indicate the destruction of a number of Baha’i graves in Yazd’s Golestan Javid (Baha’i cemetery). Tombstones in this cemetery have been demolished by stones and blocks…
Source: www.hra-News.org By Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari Translation by Iran Press Watch The Peace Line Monthly – By now, most regular consumers of media have been exposed to recent reports exhumation of Baha’i woman was exhumed (apparently overnight)…
Source: www.zeitoons.com Translation by Iran Press watch Letter from a number of progressive Muslims condemning the violation of Baha’i rights Zeitoon – A group of progressive Muslims has strongly condemned the “desecration and excavation of the…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The body of a Baha’i citizen, Shamsi Aghdasi Azamian, from Gilavand, a suburb of the city of Damavand, on October 24, was exhumed by unknown individuals several…
Source: BBC Persian By: Mehrdad Amanat, Historical Researcher Translation by Iran Press Watch In an article for the Op-Ed page, in reference to recently published reports of the destruction of mass graves, historian Mehrdad Amanat looks…
Source: bahaicamp.com According to a report by the “No to Harassment and Imprisonment of Bahá’í Compatriots Campaign”, the Bahá’í cemetery of Kerman (known as the Eternal Garden), has been sealed. No specific reason has been provided…
Source: observer.com Violence aimed at minority cemeteries is a disturbing call for ethnic purification By Negar Mottahedeh Recent attacks on Jewish cemeteries and religious centers in the United States is shoring up the darkest of my…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Within the last two weeks, government forces in Southern Khorasan have walled off the Baha’i cemetery and destroyed its mortuary. According to a report on the website of…
Source: www.goldnews.biz Translation by Iran Press Watch 29th October 2016 According to Gold News: The Municipal office of Ardestan has demolished the gate of the Baha’i Cemetery. Ardestan is part of Isfahan Province, and is situated…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report by “BahaiNews” dated October 1, 2016, the Baha’i cemetery in Urumia has been demolished for the second time, and trees there were set on…
Source: en.iranwire.com Friday 15 January 2016 Roland Elliott Brown In Iran, deceased members of the Baha’i faith cannot rest in peace, nor can a Baha’i’s relatives count on being allowed to grieve in peace. According to…
Source: www.facebook.com By Shadi Sadri Translated by Iran Press Watch Bringing parallel lines together It is the academic year of 1995-1996. I am in my last year of studying law and preparing for my post graduate…
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the “No Campaign” No to Abuse and Imprisonment of Baha’i Residents, as reported by Human Rights Activists, unidentified elements have cut down twenty year old trees…
