Source: iranwire.com SHABNAM MOINIPOUR Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranians were either ecstatic or silent. Their charismatic leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had won a revolution that they thought would bring them sunshine and roses. The…
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — June 18, 2023 will mark 40 years since the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out a chilling act of oppression: 10 Bahá’í women were hanged in a single night in…
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Iranians of all backgrounds have together built Iran, regardless of their personal opinions, religion, or ethnicity. In a series of reports, IranWire looks at prominent personalities from Iran’s ethnic and…
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ms. Sanaz Tafzali (Ruhi), a 45-year-old Baha’i citizen, married mother of two, has been detained in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison for three months without specific charges. As of March…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Currently, 24 women are being held at the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran for political and alleged national security charges. This report provides an updated list of these prisoners along with their…
Source: iranwire.com The Australian chapter of PEN International, a freedom of expression group, has strongly condemned the detention of award-winning Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she is being held in solitary confinement,…
Source: www.thejournal.ie Brendan McNamara TIME MAGAZINE HAS named the women of Iran as their 2022 “Heroes of the Year” and the international community has rightly recognised the bravery and heroism of all Iranians, especially women, who are publicly…
Source: pen-international.org PEN International is outraged by reports that Baha’i writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet was sentenced to ten years in prison. PEN International calls on the Iranian authorities to quash the conviction and…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—11 December 2022—In the midst of increasingly violent and repressive actions by the Iranian authorities against their own citizens, two Baha’i women, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, regarded as symbols of resilience in Iran…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 13, Baha’i citizens Mitra Bandi Amir-Abadi and Hiva Yazdan Mehdi-Abadi were arrested at their home by security forces and sent to Yazd Prison to serve their sentences. According to HRANA, the news…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Women’s motocross champion and Baha’i citizen Shahrzad Nazifi was recently sentenced to 8 years in prison, 3 months’ probation in a center for mental handicaps, and a 2-year ban from leaving the country.…
Source: https://www.en-hrana.org On May 20, Baha’i citizens Sanaz Rasteh and Firoozeh Rastinejad were released on bail from Dolatabad Prison in Isfahan after their arrest in Baharestan. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Nika Pakzadan, Faraneh Daneshgari, Sanaz Ishaqi, Nakisa Hajipour and Naghmeh Zabihian, five Baha’i citizens living in Mashhad, were each sentenced by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court to one…
Source: www.bic.org Geneva—14 December 2016—On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Baha’i International Community joins many in calling for the immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, a human rights defender imprisoned in Iran. “On this…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Lack of Medical Care, Denied Family Visitation, Substandard Food, among Conditions in Ward June 20, 2016—Political prisoners held in the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison are routinely denied medical care and hospitalization, face…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Harana News Agency – On the Sunday morning of March 30th 2014, intelligence officers arrested two Baha’i residents of Mashhad by the names of Nava Kholousi and Nika…
