Source: oberlinreview.org Last October, an Oberlin faculty member denied allegations that he helped cover up Iran’s mass killing of political prisoners in 1988 when he served as Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. In the months since, Professor of…
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The Iranian Judiciary’s Unjust and Discriminatory Tactics Against the Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Despite using a range of tactics, the Islamic Republic and its judiciary, as well as authorities before it, have not been able to destroy Iran’s Baha’i community. And now, writes Nasser Sedghi, public opinion is turning against…
Sentencing of Attorney Amir Salar Davoodi to 30 Years in Prison and 111 Lashes.
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court condemned Amir-Salar Davoodi, an attorney and human rights activist, to 30 years in prison; 15 years of this sentence is mandatory. Davoodi, who…
Shahrzad Nazifi, Baha’i Motocross Racing Champion, Denied Access to the Track
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Shahrzad Nazifi, an Iranian Baha’i, and one of the champions and trainers of Women’s Motocross Racing in Iran, along with her husband Mehrshad Naraghi and two children, Meraat and…
Forty Years of State Lies: RSF Unveils Leaked Iranian Justice File
Source: rsf.org No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed today on the basis of information in…
Unarmed Iranian Prophets in the Vineyard of God
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Mahmoud Sabahy The lies about minorities, especially the least dangerous of them, are quite well-known in the world, but, isn’t the least dangerous usually the one that’s the most…
Iran Update: Reports of Persecuted Baha’is October 24 – November 11
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) -Baha’i citizens of Iran have continued to face persecution this month, in the form of grave desecrations, business shutdowns, and interference by authorities in their places of employment. Meanwhile,…
‘Suspicious Murder of General Khademi’ the First Head of HOMA, a Few Months Before the Iranian Revolution
Source: bbc.com Pejman Akbarzadeh Translation by Iran Press Watch In the 1970’s, Iran Air (known in the country as HOMA) had garnered the title of “fastest growing” among the world’s airlines. According to Encyclopedia Iranica,…
Iranian Security Agencies Rounding Up Baha’is, Rights Watchdog Says
Source: en.radiofarda.com Iranian intelligence agents have stepped up their harassment of the Baha’i religious minority with a slew of arrests over the last few months, according to an October 16 report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).…
Iran: Arrests, Harassment of Baha’is
Source: www.hrw.org Public Official Arrested for Speaking Out Against Repression (Beirut) – Iranian intelligence officials have increased the arrests of the country’s Baha’i religious minority over the past two months, with no clear charges, Human Rights Watch said…
Ghodsieh Ashraf, Iranian Baha’i, Health and Education Pioneer, Among First Iranian Women to Graduate from United States University
Source: shahrvand-yar.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ghodsieh Ashraf, an Iranian Baha’i citizen and one of the first Iranian women to graduate from a United States University, spent her life in serving in the fields…
Numerous Anti-Baha’i Publications included at Tehran International Book Fair
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – A few days into the Tehran International Book Fair, a significant increase was seen in the number of anti-Baha’i publications, with titles such as “The…
Champion of Justice Asma Jahangir Leaves Legacy of Courage
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — The Baha’i International Community has expressed its condolences for the passing of Asma Jahangir, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran and greatly-admired champion of the dignity…
Leading Lawyers Take Iran to Task
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — In an open letter released yesterday, 25 prominent intellectuals and experts in human rights law called on Mohammad Javad Larijani, Head of the High Council for Human Rights in Iran, to acknowledge…
Iran’s Secret Shunning of a Minority Faith
Source: www.bloomberg.com By Eli Lake The Baha’i have been excluded from basic civic functions like pensions and education. They’re publishing the proof. Usually the Iranian regime’s assault on its people’s dignity is measured in its political prisoners,…
Iranian Authorities Confiscate Prominent Director’s Passport, Ban Him From Making Films
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof has revealed that he has been banned from making films in Iran and is not allowed to leave the country. “As soon as I arrived at Tehran’s international airport [on September 11,…
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