Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abolfazl Ansari, a Baha’i resident of Mehrshahr in Karaj, was arrested last night by people who identified themselves as law enforcement officers, and was taken…
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How I Became a Baha’i
Source: mbamdadan.blogspot.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Mazdak Bamdadan – Recently, I was invited by the Iran Society in Frankfurt to give a talk about the Shahnameh of Firdawsi. After the talk and the conversation that…
Deputy Chairman of Parliament Criticizes Institutions for Interfering with the Work of Parliament, Denying Education to Baha’is and Closing their Businesses
Source: magiran.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Editor’s note: Baha’is are faced with many forms of persecution, including denial of higher education and closure of businesses, which are rooted in a secret 1991 memorandum of the…
Number of Barred Baha’i Students Increases on 2018 National University Entrance Exam
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – A large number of Baha’i students who participated in the 2018 National University Entrance Exam, known as “Konkur,” have had their applications flagged “deficiency on file” on the…
Expulsion of Shakib Teimouri, a Baha’i Student, from Gorgan University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shakib Teimouri, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Gorgan, was expelled from university for being a Baha’i, on the morning…
The Continued Closure of the Baha’i Businesses; 90 Locations in Kerman, Sistan, and Baluchistan and East Azerbaijan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch The HRANA News Agency – The number of Baha’i-owned business under forced closure and seal by authorities in Kerman, Sistan, and Baluchistan and East Azerbaijan has reached 90. This…
Baha’i Poet Jailed in Iran Wins Free Speech PEN Pinter Prize
Source: mobile.nytimes.com By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OCTOBER 10, 2017 LONDON — A Baha’i poet who was jailed for almost a decade in Iran has won a writing award celebrating free speech. Mahvash Sabet shares the PEN…
Nava Kholousi Released from Mashhad Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Nava Kholousi, a Baha’i serving a four-and-one-half year sentence at Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, was released from prison the evening of September 6, 2017. …
Masih Alinejad: To Defend Rights of Bahá’ís We Do Need Not to Be Bahá’í, We Just Need to Be Human Beings
Source: www.instagram.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Editor’s note: Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist and author, as well as an activist for human and women’s rights. She is currently living in exile in the United States.…
The Cost of Discrimination: The Film
Source: www.iranwire.com By ARASH AZIZI The Cost of Discrimination1 is the story of discrimination in Iran and South Africa. The documentary film examines life under South African Apartheid and draws parallels with Iranian authorities’ continued persecution of the Baha’i…
Answering Is Not Enough! Take Action!
Source: medium.com By Foaad Haghighi In a recent interview, Javad Larijani, Secretary of the High Council for Human Rights of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said: “It turns out Iran’s sanctions were not…
Sorrows and Dreams of Keyvan Rahimian, a Baha’i Teacher
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On the 22 and 23 of May 2013, Iranian intelligence agents, in a coordinated and widespread move across the country, stormed the homes of dozens of Baha’is…
Summons, Detention, and Search of the Residences and Shops of Six Baha’is in Sistan and Baluchistan
Source: BahaiNews 1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, on Thursday, May 4, 2017, Sistan and Baluchistan security forces searched two Baha’i homes and summoned three of their inhabitants. They have also detained…
Falsely Imprisoned Grandparents Wish to be with their Grandchildren
Source: medium.com By Sarv Mithaqiyan (a.k.a. Sodid) Religious freedom and practice are taken for granted in the USA. This is not true for countries like Iran. Soon after its inception in 1844, the Baha’i Faith provoked suspicion…
Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: www.iranhrdc.org (July 30, 2014) – IHRDC’s latest 50-page report, Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran, details the jurisprudential as well as the legal context in which apostasy cases are prosecuted in the Islamic…
Joint Letter in Support of the UNGA Resolution a/C.3/71/L.25 on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: www.hrw.org To: Member States of the United Nations General Assembly Your Excellencies: We, the undersigned human rights organizations, welcome the decision of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee to pass…
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