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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Source: www.ghatreh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Introduction (by Iran Press Watch): Baha’is have been persecuted in Iran since the Faith was initiated in 1844 by the delaration of the Bab that He was revealing a…
Source: www.hrw.org (Sanaa) – Yemeni authorities should drop all charges against a member of the Baha’i faith detained since December 2013, apparently for his religious beliefs. Prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty for Hamed Kamal Muhammad…
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, Shahram Eshraghi, one of the Baha’i prisoners in the city of Isfahan, who is suffering from severe respiratory illnesses, has not been allowed to receive…
