Source: news.bahai.org DHAKA, Bangladesh — A group of Bangladeshi lawyers have joined the increasing numbers of Muslim intellectuals, religious leaders, and professionals worldwide who have called for an end to the persecution of Baha’is in Iran. In a letter…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org In the wake of the intense criticism by Iranian officials and religious leaders of Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, for her meeting with Baha’i leader Fariba Kamalabadi, several exiled Iranian political…
Source: iranwire.com Translation By Iran Press Watch 17 November 2015 The arrests of 20 Baha’i citizens in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz and the closing of 23 Baha’i-owned businesses in Mazandaran Province is evidence of continued pressure…
Source: www.amnesty.org.uk In Iran, followers of the Baha’i faith face discrimination, arrest and arbitrary detention, some have even been executed because of their religion. Although founded in 1863, the country’s constitution does not recognise and protect…
Source: news.bahai.org 20 October 2015 Internationally renowned Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, has made available to the general public his award-winning film, The Gardener. Filmed in the Baha’i gardens on the slopes of Mount Carmel and in the…
Source: www.bahainews.ca Toronto, Ontario, 1 October 2015 (CBNS) — “You will be scattered like gems across the country.” That is what Mina Sanaee recalled Douglas Martin telling her when he visited Baha’i refugees in Pakistan…
Source: news.bahai.org 6 October 2015 OTTAWA — The Baha’i Community of Canada in partnership with the Canadian Immigration Historical Society as well as Carleton University’s Centre for Public History, Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, and its Department…
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—23 September 2015 Concerned about increasing restrictions on religious freedom worldwide, parliamentarians from more than 50 countries have pledged to pursue efforts to strengthen and promote freedom of religion or belief in their…
Source: www.facebook.com/bahainews1 “BahaiNews” released a heartfelt letter from Masoud Bastani, a journalist, human rights activist and former political prisoner who was the cellmate of Kamran Rahimian. The text is below: Welcome friend; a friend in my…
By Shapour Daneshmand AQUIETGENOCIDE.COM is a project that evolved out of the mounting concern of alarmed Americans and Iranians appalled by the atrocities committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran against an entire group of…
Source: www.youtube.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Greetings to all my Iranian compatriots, especially my Baha’i compatriots! I just want to say that we the Shi’ite population of Iran, have not been decent faithful brothers…
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk By Louisa Peacock 7:30AM BST 04 Jun 2013 British-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili is gearing up to launch Prison Poems tonight, a collection of work written by a former teacher currently behind bars in Iran’s notorious…
Source: Free Atena Farghadani (facebook group) Translation by Iran Press Watch Atena Farghadani (1) has been recently sentenced to more than 12 years in prison(2). She has written the following text in her defense: Before 2009,…
Source: thehill.com May 11, 2015, 10:00 am By S. Rob Sobhani, Ph.D President Obama and his foreign policy team should be commended for trying to solve the difficult problem of Iran’s nuclear program. While…
Source: iranrn.net April 11, 2015 Using millions of Lego pieces, Ai Weiwei – the well-known Chinese artist – has created the images of more than 176 human right prisoners including Faran Hesami, Kamran Rahimian,…
Source: Baha’i World News Service 22 March 2015 GENEVA — A high UN official has praised the film “To Light a Candle”, a documentary film on the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, as an important…
