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,…
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“I Was Embarrassed by My Freedom”
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…
I Grew up Away from My Mother, in Prison Meeting Halls
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…
Fariba Kamalabadi’s Letter to Her Beautiful Daughter the Bride
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…
Afif Naeimi, a Prisoner of Conscience, Taken Back to Prison in spite of Serious Health Condition
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…
Fariba Kamalabadi Denied Leave to Attend Daughter’s Wedding
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…
Alberto Manguel writes an open letter to the poet, imprisoned in Iran for her defence of the Bahá’i Faith
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…
Afif Na’imi and Amanullah Mostaqim Sent from Hospital to Raja’i Shahr Prison
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…
A Page from the Forgotten History of the Events Leading to the Detention of the “Yaran-e Iran”; Arrest of Mahvash Sabet
Source: http://goo.gl/cgNOZk Translation by Iran Press Watch By: Kian Sabeti …
Prison Poem: Deliverance
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…
Prison Poem: Wayfarer of Heart and Soul
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…
A Doctor Remembers His Days in Prison With Iran’s Unjustly Persecuted Baha’is
[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…
For the Bahá’ís Imprisoned in Iran, Freedom and Human Rights Seem Remote
[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…
Freed Iranian Rights Lawyer: ‘I’ve a Bad Feeling about the Women I Left Behind’
[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…
Faith Leaders Call for Release of Iran’s Imprisoned Bahá’ís
[news.bahai.org.uk] 28 May 2014 By Esslemont The call came at an unprecedented commemorative meeting in Westminster Abbey, held on Tuesday 27 May, to mark the sixth anniversary of their imprisonment. The seven are each currently serving 20-year…
LOVED AMONG PRISONERS
[treasuresofwonderment.com] by Mary Victoria The poet in prison. Some of her work has recently been smuggled out of Rajei Shahr. One poem reads: We did not realize what our silent smiles could do. And so in…
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