Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA News Agency, the Human Rights Activists news organization of Iran, in Sari the shops of 19 Baha’is citizens have been sealed for more than three years…
Minorities
Minority Religious Groups Suffer in Iran
Source: www.nationalreview.com By Jeff Cimmino The U.S. and allied nations should sanction Iran for its persecution of religious minorities. The Iranian government continues to persecute religious minorities, including groups supposedly given special recognition by the country’s…
UN Rights Monitor Highlights Political Repression, Abuse, Executions In Iran
Source: www.rferl.org Reformists in Iran are under pressure, detainees face torture and abuse, and people are being executed at an “alarming” rate, a UN monitor studying human rights in the tightly controlled country says. The bleak…
I fled Iran after being imprisoned for my religion. Now …
Source: www.thetab.com ‘You never think the horror stories are going to happen to you’ Born in Tehran, Iran, Nasim Biglari is a twenty-nine year-old visual art and media student at the University of California, San Diego.…
Remarks of the Deputy Chairman of the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament against Baha’i citizens: “Baha’ism is not an acceptable religious minority in Iran”
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Haghighat-Pour added: Religious minorities are legally recognized in Iran. Of course, Baha’ism is a minority, created by the British, that is not recognized by the laws of the Islamic…
Shirin Ebadi’s Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon Convince Iranian Authorities to Be More Considerate toward Sufis and Other Religious Communities
Source: www.majzooban.org, goo.gl/7GKaJJ Sunday, Sep 21 2014 Tehran, 20-09-2014, security forces attacked and arrested Gonabadi Sufis who were going to stage a peace rally in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office. On the same day, Shirin…
The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity A Lecture by Dr. Akhavan in Chicago
[Editor: Dr. Payam Akhavan is a Founder and Board Member of Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre: Payam Akhavan, LL.B., LL.M, S.J.D. (Professor, McGill University Faculty of Law): Payam Akhavan is Professor of International Law at McGill…
Authorities tighten grip on Christians as unrest roils
Amid a violent crackdown on protestors and a purge of opponents within the Iranian government, more than 30 Christians were arrested in the last two weeks near Tehran and in the northern city of Rasht. …
Two Historical Documents
Editor’s Note: In our continual effort to document the mistreatment of the Baha’is of Iran and the regime’s role in bringing about systematic discrimination against the Baha’is, two official documents by Iranian authorities relating to…
Baha’is and Constructive Resilience
Editor’s Note: Following are notes from a talk by Prof. Michael Karlberg given at the Eastside Baha’i Center in Bellevue, Washington, on 27 June 2009, as part of a public program organized in support of…
Justice, not Shame!
Editor’s Note: Dr. Naficy is a well-known Iranian poet, writer, and human rights and political activist. In April of this year, he wrote a brilliant essay, which Iran Press Watch was pleased to share extracts…
Imprisoned In Iran For Religious Belief
In a report released this month, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan governmental body, described a deteriorating situation regarding religious freedom in Iran — particularly for Baha’is, Evangelical Christians, and Sufi Muslims.…
The cost of religious conversion in Iran
Editor’s Note: Last October, the Iranian parliament voted in favour of a draft bill which would make the death penalty compulsory for all male apostates, while female apostates must live out their years in prison.…
Persecution of Baha'i and Christians in Iran
by Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh The systematic persecution of Bahais in Iran intensified in the month of April. Again and again individual Bahais are being arbitrarily arrested. They are sometimes released against a substantial amount of…
Religious Freedom in Iran Worsened
Editor’s Note: The following report was posted on WashingtonTV on May 1, 2009, at http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=floater_censoredculture&id=10138: Religious freedom conditions in Iran have “worsened” during the past year, Dr. Richard Land, a commissioner with the United States…
In Iran, 'crackdown' on Christians worsens
Editor’s Note: Reports are emerging from Iran of heightened persecution of Christians. For decades, the largely Armenian Christian community has suffered a fate similiar to that of the Baha’is. Monitoring, arrests, torture, closure of religious…
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