The legal language is not usually accessible to the public. Mr. Sultonai and Mrs. Parakand, two well-known names in the legal circles in Iran, have produced a short document and bring the specialized legal language…
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"Respecting Legitimate Freedoms and Protecting Citizens' Rights: Excerpt from the Iranian legal framework
Respecting Legitimate Freedoms and Protecting Citizens’ Rights: Excerpt from the Iranian legal framework. [Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch has recently published a number of articles by qualified authors in an effort to make the Iranian…
The Trial of the Yaran under Iranian Criminal Procedure: “The Justice of God” or Procedural Injustice?
THE TRIAL OF THE YARAN UNDER IRANIAN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: “THE JUSTICE OF GOD” OR PROCEDURAL INJUSTICE? by Christopher Buck, Ph.D., J.D. [Editor: Iran Press Watch welcomes back Dr. Christopher Buck, a distinguished legal scholar. While most writers…
Iranian Islam, not the Yaran, on trial in the court of international opinion
Credo quia absurdum est. “I believe, because it is absurd.” — Tertullian’s (misquoted) Paradox by Christopher Buck [Editor’s Note:Iran Press Watch is pleased to offer a guest article by Dr. Christopher Buck, a distinguished legal scholar,…
Trial of Recently Detained Baha’is to Start “this Week” in Tehran
(MNBR) The semi-official Fars News Agency quoted today the Tehran persecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying that the trial of the recently detained Baha’is of Tehran “will be this week in a revolutionary court in…
Transfer of a Baha’i from being a prisoner to internal exile
Mr. Zabihollah Raufi, a Baha’i in prison in Sanandaj, was transferred to the prison in Toyserkan after four months of incarceration in order to carry out his sentence of internal exile. HRANA – Prisoner’s Rights:…
Sentence Issued against 3 Baha'is in Yasuj
HRANA – Religious Minority Rights: the court issued a sentence against three Baha’is of Yasuj who have been under arrest for approximately one month; they were accused of teaching the Baha’i Faith. According to the…
Subpoena of a Baha’i by the Office of Intelligence
HRANA – Religious Minority Rights: According to the Baha’i Committee of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Mr. Sepehr Rowshan, a Baha’i in the city of Bushehr, was subpoenaed by the Office of Intelligence for attending…
Indecision regarding a Baha’i prisoner in Sanandaj
Human Rights Activists News Agency, Human Rights of Prisoners: According to the Baha’i Committee of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Zabihullah Raoufie, a Baha’i in Sanandaj, who was arrested on the 28th of Mordad of…
Report on Violations of the Human Rights of Baha’is – March 21 to May 21, 2009
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone…
Apostasy and Baha'is as Apostates in Islam
Editor’s Note: This is a translation of an editorial titled “What is apostasy, and are Baha’is apostates?” written by Mohammed Shebl, printed in an Egyptian newspaper “Al Qahirah” (Cairo) on May 5, 2009. The treatment…
Which Religion Has Authorized the Suppression of Ideas?
At the invitation of the Committee to Pursue Arbitrary Arrests and concurrent with Eid-e Fetr [end of Ramadan celebration] a group of human rights activists and families of political and ideological prisoners gathered at the…
There is no Provision for Apostasy in Law: Comments by Professor Hashem Aghajari
Translated by Ahang Rabbani In many Islamic countries last Tuesday, and in Iran on Wednesday, observances were held in celebration of the ‘Id-e Fitr, which marks the conclusion of the sacred fasting month of Ramadan.…
Saturday, 20 September 2008
News Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), which often echoes the archconservative sentiments of Iran’s Islamic regime, reported on Friday, 19 September 2008, (http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1201091&Lang=P) that a petition was signed earlier in the day at the Friday…
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