Source: policyoptions.irpp.org Geoffrey Cameron For 17 years in a row, a Canada-led UN resolution has condemned violations against Iran’s people. This voice of the international community matters. At the end of October, the UN General Assembly’s…
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The JCPOA Has Not Improved Iran’s Human Rights Record
Source: www.fdd.org Tzvi Kahn, Alireza Nader The Obama administration routinely argued that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran could spur Tehran to moderate, thereby reducing its systematic human rights abuses. But this forecast has proven…
Violations of Baha’i Rights are a Systematic Policy in Iran
Source: en.radiozamaneh.com Javad Abbasi Tavallali interviews Diane Ala’i of the Baha’i International Community The Islamic Republic of Iran not only does not recognize Baha’is as a religious minority group but it does not leave the Baha’i…
Being a Baha’i Is Not a Crime
Source: www.peace-mark.org By Muhammad Moghimi Peace Mark Monthly – Our Baha’i compatriots avoid any political activity, and basically, the Baha’i community in Iran has had no administration since 1983. Therefore it is impossible for them to…
BIC Joins Expressions of Concern for Recent Sentence of Nasrin Sotoudeh
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA —19 March 2019 The Baha’i International Community joins the international community in expressing deep concern over the sentence leveled against Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer imprisoned in Iran. Ms. Sotoudeh was…
Archives Chronicle Decades of Baha’i Persecution in Iran
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 January 2018—In response to growing interest on the persecution of the Bahá’ís of Iran, a website was launched today by the Bahá’í International Community providing a glimpse into several decades of discriminatory treatment…
Following Recent Arrests, U.S. Senate Condemns Persecution of Baha’is in Iran
Source: publicaffairs.bahai.us December 22, 2017 Contact: James Samimi Farr Phone: (202) 833-8990, Email: [email protected] WASHINGTON — Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 139, condemning the Iranian government’s state-sponsored persecution of its Baha’i minority as well as its…
Ayatollah Abdul Hamid Masumi: We Must Put Away Hostility with Baha’is
Source: www.peace-mark.org By Cimin Rouzgard Translation by Iran Press Watch Ayatollah Abdul Hamid Masumi Tehrani, by submitting a work of art along with a letter to the Universal House of Justice (Baha’i World Center), called for…
Masih Alinejad: To Defend Rights of Bahá’ís We Do Need Not to Be Bahá’í, We Just Need to Be Human Beings
Source: www.instagram.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Editor’s note: Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist and author, as well as an activist for human and women’s rights. She is currently living in exile in the United States.…
UN Expert Concerned at Condition of Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org GENEVA (31 August 2017)- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, Asma Jahangir, today expressed her deep concern about the situation of a number of prisoners who have been…
Human Rights Violator: Seyed Reza Mousavi-Tabar
Source: www.justice4iran.org First Name and Last Name: Seyed Reza Mousavi-Tabar Background: Born: 1964 , Jahrom Education: B.A. in Judicial Studies from the School of Judicial Studies; Iran’s Judiciary System. Titles and Positions Held: Current job/position: Deputy Prosecutor of…
Human Rights Violator: Seyed Hassan Firouzabadi
Source: www.justice4iran.org Witness Accounts of Alleged Violations and Crimes. As Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has been involved in violating the civil and human rights of Bahá’ís. In 2005,…
Following Religious Freedom Report, Iran Strives To Distract Attention From Abuses
Source: www.irannewsupdate.com By Edward Carney On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported upon what it described as Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recurring “hobby” of using social media to voice criticisms of domestic affairs in the United States. Leading…
Baha’i Prisoners Face Harsher Conditions
Source: Bahai International Community GENEVA—16 August 2017—In a harsh move by the prison authorities in Karaj, Iran, a number of inmates in Gohardasht Prison, including over fifteen Baha’is, have been moved to a new section…
Trump Administration Presses Middle East on Religious Freedom
Source: www.al-monitor.com By Laura Rozen SUMMARY: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson committed the United States to fighting for religious liberty around the world with the release of the annual International Religious Freedom Report. WASHINGTON — Secretary of…
After Azadi: Man Behind Iran’s Freedom Tower on How His Life Unravelled
Source: www.theguardian.com Hossein Amanat was forced to flee country after being put on a death list and says his children have never seen the monument In 1966, a 24-year-old architect who had just graduated from Tehran…
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