Source: BBC Persian After Iran’s Islamic Revolution secretive courts were set up to try suspected ideological opponents of the regime, with no jury, no defense lawyers and often no evidence beyond a confession extracted from…
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March 2016 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: shaheedoniran.org Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran to the thirty first session of the Human Rights Council. The present report is submitted to the Human…
Iran: Seven Key Human Rights Challenges Facing President Rouhani
Source: www.theguardian.com Saeed Kamali Dehghan Friday 4 March 2016 02.00 EST After the success of moderates in the polls, hopes grow that Rouhani will follow his nuclear deal efforts by tackling issues including the high number of executions…
Prominent Lawyer for Yaran Passed Away on Lawyers Day
Source: Nasrin Sotoudeh 02/26/2016 Translation by Iran Press Watch Last Thursday, coinciding with Defense Lawyers’ Day and the Day of Independence of the Bar1, the community lost one of its most respected colleagues, who had…
Human Rights in Iran Under Scrutiny in the European Parliament as Iranian FM Zarif Is to Meet EU Officials in Brussels
Source: ejpress.org Written by EJP Friday, 12 February 2016 15:55 BRUSSELS (EJP)—Bastiaan Belder, a Dutch Member of the European Parliament will host Monday an exchange of views on ‘’Human rights in Iran and the EU’s Policy of…
Iran: No Accountability for Abuses
Source: Human Rights Watch Freedoms Restricted; Executions Soar (Beirut) – Security and intelligence forces were the main perpetrators of human rights abuses in Iran during 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report…
The Names of the Others
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt IranWire is thrilled and relieved that Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini and Nasrollah Khosravi were released from Iranian jails on January 16. The lives of these four Iranian-American men and their families can…
Iran’s Economy Cannot Be Separated from Human Rights
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com By Geoffrey Cameron Geoffrey Cameron is a PhD candidate and Trudeau Scholar at the University of Toronto. He is also principal researcher with the Baha’i Community of Canada. Now that nuclear-related economic sanctions against Iran…
U.S. Senate Passes Resolution 148 Condemning the Persecution of the Baha’i Community in Iran
Source: publicaffairs.bahai.us December 18, 2015 WASHINGTON — Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution “condemning the government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of its Baha’i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights.” Senate…
Iran’s Continued Assault on Human Rights
Source: www.embassynews.ca President Rouhani has failed to deliver on promises to protect civil rights and respect religious minorities’ rights. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Human Rights Council on March 2. UN Photo: Jean-Marc…
Baha’i Faith: President Rouhani Has Failed to Stop Religious Discrimination
Source: www.worldreligionnews.com 28 SEP 2015 POSTED BY WRN EDITORIAL STAFF NEW YORK – The Baha’i International Community expressed its disappointment over Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s failure to address the human rights situation in his country during his…
Iran’s Persecution of the Baha’i Has Been Met by Silence From Rouhani–and the World
Source: qz.com By Ramin Ahmadi In all my years as an Iranian-American, I have never heard so much discussion about Iran. In the halls of Congress, on the Sunday morning talk shows, at any number of…
In Iran, Anti-Baha’i Actions Hurt People and Business
Source: www.ihrb.org (Institute for Human Rights and Business) by Bayan Towfiq1 August 11, 2015 The airwaves are still buzzing with news of the historic nuclear dealbetween six major world powers and Iran. As foreign corporations begin to consider…
Religious Persecution On the Rise: Minorities Under Threat in the Middle East
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Doug Bandow 07/25/2015 All religious faiths are victims of persecution somewhere. In this supposedly enlightened, tolerant age, people routinely are brutalized, jailed and killed for their faith — or lack of faith —…
Siavosh Khanjani: In Iran, Baha’is Are Deemed Unfit to Attend University, Hold Public Sector Jobs, or Teach
Source: news.nationalpost.com July 16, 2015 6:37 PM ET I own and operate a business in Toronto. Since coming to Canada, I have been welcomed by other Canadians, and feel very much a Canadian now, too. I…
Iran Is Open for Business but We Cannot Ignore Its Human Rights Record
Source: www.ibtimes.co.uk By Dr Nazila Ghanea July 16, 2015 10:30 BST In a village in south-western Iran, a family awakes to find their property on fire. Some days earlier, they had rented out the store below their…
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