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.…
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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…
Ayatollah Khomeini: “Deviant Baha’i Sect ‘Apostates’ and ‘Unclean'”
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…
Yemen: Baha’i Adherent Faces Death Penalty
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…
Shahram Eshraghi: In Poor Health; Denied Medical Leave
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…
The Government Shut down Two Baha’i-Owned Businesses in Isfahan
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, quoting informed sources: The businesses of two Baha’i citizens who own an eyewear store were shut down. According to the “BahaiNews” report, agents from the…
Expulsion of a Member of the National Martial Arts Team and Head of the Jujutsu Association of Kermanshah Province Because of Conversion to the Baha’i Faith
Source: The Voice of Iranian Christians, http://goo.gl/iNqBu6 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to reports from the human rights activist group, the Voice of the Iranian Christian News Agency, Hamzeh Raziany, a former member of the…
Violation of Baha’i Rights Continues, Ranging from the Destruction of Cemeteries to University Entrance Exams Not Being Accepted
Source: http://taghato.net/article/7659 Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: August 9, 2014 Taghato: Human Rights sources report the restart of the destruction of the old Baha’i cemetery in Shiraz and the arrest of four Baha’i citizens in…
Sasha Eskandarian: Iran’s Persecution of the Baha’i Goes beyond the Grave
Source: National Post, http://goo.gl/UvSn0f Sasha Eskandarian, National Post | August 19, 2014 6:51 AM ET It’s not difficult for me to remember the horrible days of hardship I experienced as a Baha’i teenager, living in Shiraz, Iran, in…
Remembering Seyed Jamal Hosseini
Iran Press Watch was deeply saddened by the sudden and suspicious death of one of the founders of Human Rights Activists News Agency and its editor, Seyed Jamal Hosseini. Jamal was a noble champion of human rights…
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