Source: www.internationalaffairs.org.au By Michael Day In the lead-up to Christmas, the United Nations General Assembly passed its 29th resolution since 1985 drawing attention to human rights violations in Iran. Among the groups persecuted, followers of the…
Source: www.uscirf.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 23, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The UN General Assembly on December 19 passed its 14th consecutive resolution which included a condemnation of the Iranian government’s actions against the Baha’i…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Five months before his second term re-election bid, President Hassan Rouhani signed his government’s “Charter on Citizens’ Rights” on December 19, 2016. The announcement was touted as the fulfillment of a campaign pledge, but the…
Source: www.bic.org Geneva—14 December 2016—On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Baha’i International Community joins many in calling for the immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, a human rights defender imprisoned in Iran. “On this…
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com By Mahmoud Sabahi Translation by Iran Press Watch Introduction: Human beings in Iran are “citicaptives” and not citizens! Attitudes and habits of social and political life in Iran, and the resistance that they display…
Source: www.iranwire.com Friday, 25 November 2016 Author: Maryam Dadgar Translation by Iran Press Watch In a November 3, 2016 meeting with two delegates from Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs who were visiting Iran, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi[1]…
Source: www.bbc.com By Mohammad Heydari Translation by Iran Press Watch The “Baha’i problem” in Iran is one of the central predicaments for us. Baha’is are “the true Other ” to majority Shi’ites; how we deal with…
Source: Foaad Haghighi Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Dear Mr. Bahram Ghasemi, In your recent representation of your Ministry and the IRI, you have called the issues of human rights…
Source: www.fidh.org On 2 and 3 November 2016, police agents sealed off more than 100 small businesses belonging to followers of the Baha’i faith in several cities across Iran, including in the northern cities of Qaemshahr,…
Source: www.bic.org The situation of Iranian Baha’is should be given more attention in overall discussions of human rights in Iran, said experts this week at the launch of a new report on the persecution Baha’is in…
Source: www.abcnews.go.com By EDITH M. LEDERER, ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED NATIONS — Oct 25, 2016, 12:05 AM ET The Baha’i International Community said Tuesday that Iran’s effort to crush the religious minority has continued unabated and intensified…
Source: www.bic.org A new report from the Baha’i International Community Published in October 2016, this report examines how the Iranian government has for nearly forty years pursued the systematic persecution of its Baha’i citizens, who represent…
Source: english.alarabiya.net By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh The news regarding the Islamic Republic’s massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners attracted the attention of the national and international media outlets. Nevertheless, many human rights and political activists are protesting the…
Source: www.theguardian.com UN secretary general highlights ‘alarming rate’ of executions, unfair trials and arbitrary detentions in 19-page report Ban Ki-moon with Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani at the UN in New York in September. Critics say the…
Source: www.editorials.voa.gov “The very existence of the group is declared to be illegal. Its leaders are in jail in many cases, and often many of those in jail end up facing significant human rights abuses there…
Source: www.shahrvand.com September 13, 2016 Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein High Commissioner Office of the United Nations for Human Rights OHCHR-Palais Wilson, United Nations Office at Geneva CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Dear Honorable High Commissioner: Re: Baha’is in…
