Source: www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2014/09/18/beyond-human-rights/ 4 September 2014 By Payam Akhavan Vancouver Human Rights Lecture I am honoured to deliver this year’s Vancouver Human Rights Lecture. I am most grateful for the invitation extended to me by the…
Source: www.payamha-iran.org Translation by Baha’i World Center The world governing body of the Baha’i Faith1 has written an open letter 2 to the oppressed Baha’is of Iran which is so important and so eloquent that Iran…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-155 Translation by Sen’s daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-28k Thirteen months after the execution-style killing of Mr. Ataollah Rezvani, a well-known member of the Bahai community in Bandar Abbas (on August 24, 2013), the judicial authorities are pressing…
Source: https://hra-news.org/fa/prisoners/b-105 Translation by Sen’d Daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-27X Jamaleddin Khanjani, aged 81, is one of seven Bahai ‘Yaran’ (national facilitators for the Bahais in Iran) who were sentenced to 20 years in prison after their May 2008…
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1023 25 September 2014 UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech to the United Nations today failed to address a number of fundamental human rights issues in Iran, including the reason for Iran’s continued unjust…
Source: Bahai International Community, United Nations Office, goo.gl/f2n42S Topic: Situation of Iranian Baha’is NEW YORK—24 September 2014 An ad hoc coalition of human rights organizations is asking Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to honor and facilitate requests from…
Situation of the Baha’is of Iran Source: www.bic.org/statements/Situation-Bahais-Iran-1 Human Rights Council 27 – item 4 16 September 2014 Geneva Yesterday, the Baha’i International Community released a document entitled “Unfulfilled Promises”, which reviews the commitments the Islamic…
Source: Reuters, goo.gl/I96kX3 BY LOUIS CHARBONNEAU UNITED NATIONS, Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:04pm BST (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s promises of greater freedoms for the Islamic Republic have not resulted in any major improvements regarding human…
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1019 GENEVA — Iran has completely failed to live up to a series of promises it made regarding its treatment of Iranian Baha’is four years ago, says the Baha’i International Community in a new report. Titled…
Source: iranwire.com By Aida Ghajar Translation by Iran Press Watch Persecution of Baha’is in Hamadan, : A letter to Mohamad Javad Larijani Mr. Sohrab Habibi, a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hamadan,…
Source: mehdikhalaji.com/archives/1103 Translation by Iran Press Watch Mehdi Khalaji 30 August, 2014 Below is the full text of my talk at the Twenty Forth Conference of the Association of Friends of Persian Culture, on twenty ninth…
Source: Iranwire, http://iranwire.com/features/6488/ Translation by Iran Press Watch Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 Ida Ghajar On June 13, 1981, the phones rang in several homes in Hamadan at 7 o’clock in the morning. The phone calls…
09 April 2014 The Bishop of Coventry, Dr Christopher Cocksworth *, has described as a ‘courageous step’, the decision by a prominent Muslim cleric in Iran to gift to the Bahá’í community an important religious…
[news.bahai.org, 16 Nov 2013] NEW YORK — The seven imprisoned Iranian Baha’i leaders have written a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, commenting on his proposed “Charter of Citizen’s Rights.” During his campaign for election earlier…
[ejiltalk.org, 10 Dec 2013] Nazila Ghanea 100 days into his presidency, Iranian President Hassan Rohani delivered a partial result on the nuclear issue (see EJIL:Talk! discussion by Dan Joyner)and released his draft Charter of Citizens’ Rights (henceforth…
Source: www.reuters.com Editor’s note: Below are excerpts on confiscation of Baha’i properties from a report by Reuters that investigates how Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, built his financial empire. Read the report in its entirety here. _____ Some of…
