Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Mahvash Sabet (Shahriari), a former member of the Baha’i leadership council in Iran known as “Yaran-e-Iran” (Friends of Iran), who is serving her sentence…
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Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet Started a Three-Day Hunger Strike in Protest of the Government’s Devastating Treatment of Baha’is in Iran.
Source: Golrokh Irani Translation by Iran Press Watch In protest against the government’s devastating treatment of Baha’is in Iran, we are going on a three-day hunger strike for the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December…
Jailed Baha’i Woman Denied Phone Calls from Evin Prison
Source: iranwire.com Iranian prison authorities have denied the Baha’i prisoner Mahvash Shahriari Sabet access to phone calls after she published an open letter from inside Evin prison. “It is the ultimate injustice that my mother is being…
Fariba Kamalabadi’s Letter From Evin Prison in Response to the Wave of Suppression of Baha’is, “Our Story Is One”
Source: twitter.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On the morning of Wednesday, November 8th, during a phone call with my husband, I found the opportunity to talk with my son-in-law’s mother, Mrs. Shoughangiz Sorourian, who…
“My Story Is Yours”: Baha’i Woman Writes to Iranians from Evin Prison
Source: iranwire.com Mahvash Shahriari Sabet, a Baha’i woman serving a 10-year prison sentence at Tehran’s Evin Prison, wrote a poignant letter from the confines of her cell in which she calls on Iranians to not…
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What Iran Jail Hell Taught Me About Freedom of Speech
Source: www.standard.co.uk EXCLUSIVE: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shared a bunk with one of Evin prison’s pillars of resilience. She tells the Standard of what she learned about Iran’s state-sponsored cancel culture and repression On October 6, the Nobel prize…
Baha’is Citizens Jamaloddin Khanjani and Maria Khanjani Arrested and Incarcerated at Evin Prison
Source: www.en-hrana.org On August 13, 2023, Baha’is citizens, Jamaloddin Khanjani and his daughter Maria Khanjani, were apprehended by security forces and subsequently taken to Evin Prison. Jamaloddin Khanjani had formerly served as a manager for…
Sentences of 20 Years Upheld for Two Baha’i Women
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Tehran Court of Appeal has maintained the original rulings against Baha’i citizens, Mahvash Sabet (Shahriari) and Fariba Kamalabadi, confirming their 20-year prison terms. Initially, both women were sentenced to ten years, along…
A Poem for Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Shahriyari
Source: Narges Mohammadi Some friends & companions of Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Shahriyari, on the anniversary of their detention, have offered a poem to these two dear ones, highlighting the persecutions of Baha’is in Iran.…
Iran: authorities must end the persecution of Mahvash Sabet and ensure access to adequate medical care pending her release
Source: www.pen-international.org 22/05: PEN International and the undersigned PEN Centres are outraged to learn that writer and poet Mahvash Sabet was brutally tortured during her interrogation in August 2022 at Evin prison, resulting in both…
Statement by IRFBA Chair Fiona Bruce MP on Iranian Religious Prisoners of Conscience Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi
Source: www.state.gov As Chair of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, I express grave concern over the continuing imprisonment in Iran of two prominent Iranian Baha’is, Mahvash Sabet, an internationally acclaimed poet who is…
Iran Arrests Another Baha’i Community Leader
Source: www.iranintl.com Afif Naimi, one of the former leaders of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i community, was arrested by security forces on Saturday. Baha’i activists say Naimi was spending a holiday with his family and relatives in…
Faezeh Hashemi’s Narration Of The “Torture” Suffered by Mahvash Sabet (Baha’i Citizen) While Serving Sentence in Evin Prison.
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former President Rafsanjani, is the highest-ranking figure close to the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran who is critical “oppression against Baha’is”. She…
A Baha’i Grandmother Starts Her Second Decade in Prison
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Mahvash Shahriari Sabet, a 70-year-old Baha’i teacher and poet, mother and grandmother, is perhaps even more renowned among people outside Iran than in her own country. She spent 10 years of her…
Jailed Iranian Rights Activists Ready To Testify Against FM Claims
Source: www.iranintl.com In response to Iran’s foreign minister’s denials of rape in prisons, an imprisoned female activist announced she is ready to testify against the government. In a letter sent to Radio Farda, the Persian Service…
Iran Issues More Jail Terms Against Baha’is in Iran – Including a Third Former Leader
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 February 2023—This week, two Baha’i women in Iran, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, have entered the fourth month of unjust 10-year jail terms in Evin Prison. Together with five others, they were members…
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