Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch April 23, 2015 “Harassment of the Khanjani family is systematic” Fereshteh Ghazi [email protected] The country home of Jamaleddin Khanjani’s family in Semnan was demolished by Security Forces yesterday. Jamaleddin…
Source: fa.cfppiran.com By Vahid Tizfahm (1) Translation by Iran Press Watch Tribulations, yes! Hatred – never! Perseverance, for sure! Stagnation – never! I was born in this country. I was but a few years old…
Source: www.kirk.senate.gov Thursday, Mar 12, 2015 By Senator Mark Mirk Today marks the seventh anniversary of Baha’i leader Mahvash Sabet’s wrongful imprisonment in Iran solely because of her faith. Mahvash, a wife and mother of two,…
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Excerpts from Bahman Ahmadi Amouee’s report on Prison Conditions Fereshteh Ghazi Thursday, January 29, 2015 From the moment he was arrested together with his wife at midnight on June 20…
Source: www.roozonline.com November 26, 2014 Translation by Iran Press Watch The story of many years of prison visits, by Fariba Kamalabadi’s daughter By Fereshteh Ghazi [email protected] She was thirteen years…
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday 27 November, 2014 Mother prominently absent from daughter’s wedding Fariba Kamalabadi, who has been sentenced to twenty years of prison for being a member of the Baha’i Yaran…
Source: sahamnews.org/1393/09/270866 Translation by Iran Press Watch November 22, 2014 Afif Naeimi (1), a prisoner of conscience at Rajai Shahr prison, was brought to Shariati Hospital in Tehran for treatment. Despite severe stomach bleeding and considerable…
Source: wp.me/pNMoJ-2am Fariba Kamalabadi one of the seven “Yaran” (National facilitators for the Bahai community) who are serving twenty-year prison sentences as prisoners of conscience, has been denied leave from prison to attend the wedding of…
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Mahvash Sabet Source: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/10/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-mahvash-sabet-alberto-manguel Alberto Manguel writes an open letter to the poet, imprisoned in Iran for her defence of the Bahá’i Faith News: Leading authors mount international protest to defend…
Source: Campaign to stop harassment and imprisonment of Baha’i citizens (facebook group) Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-23G At the insistence of the security forces, Afif Na’imi , one of the seven Bahai ‘Yaran’ (national…
Source: http://goo.gl/cgNOZk Translation by Iran Press Watch By: Kian Sabeti …
As Mr. Sa’id Reza’i (1) told a friend of his in a phone conversation, during the early period of the arrest of the YARAN, when they were going through interrogations and had a difficult time, one…
Mr. Reza’i (1) told his friend that he wrote this poem for the friends who take part in Study Circles outside Iran. He explained the imagery in the poem as follows: the Baha’is of the…
[globalvoicesonline.org] This guest post was written by Dr. Kamiar Alaei to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of the “Yaran”, seven leaders from the Baha’i, a persecuted minority in Iran. The Yaran – five men and two women – are serving 20…
[newstatesman.com] by Nazila Ghanea Seven Bahá’ís – members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, persecuted by the government for decades – have now spent six years in prison for practising their religion. It has been…
[theguardian.com] The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His mother, the leading Iranian human…
