(4 April 2011) Brazilian Federal Deputy Luiz Couto – former President of the Human Rights and Minorities Commission – explained to a Plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies how international pressure indicated to the Iranian…
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(4 April 2011) Brazilian Federal Deputy Luiz Couto – former President of the Human Rights and Minorities Commission – explained to a Plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies how international pressure indicated to the Iranian…
(4 April 2011) Seven leaders of the Baha’i faith, currently detained in Gohardasht prison in Karaj, have been informed that their original 20-year prison term has been reinstated. The judgment came days before the blasphemy…
(04 April 2011) Foreign Secretary, William Hague calls on the Iranian judiciary to review the case and to cease persecution of the Baha’i faith.
(Strasbourg – Monday, April 4, 2011) The President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, made the following statement on the excessive and unjustified detention of Baha’i religious leaders by Iranian authorities:
In a statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of France said it is very concerned over the decision to restore the 20-year prison sentences of Iran’s seven Baha’i leaders, in spite of an appeal court ruling…
An excerpt form the March 31st Session” Mark C. Toner Acting Deputy Department Spokesman Daily Press Briefing Washington, DC March 31, 2011 TRANSCRIPT: 1:24 p.m. EDT MR. TONER: Good afternoon. I just have one thing…
(BWNS – 6 April 2011) GENEVA — Governments and human rights organizations have been swift to condemn the reinstatement of 20-year jail sentences for Iran’s seven Baha’i leaders. The seven were informed last month by prison authorities…
(Press Trust of India, Updated: April 01, 2011 15:53 ISTz) Washington: The United States has expressed its deep concern over what it says continued religious prosecution of minorities in Iran. “We’re deeply troubled about reports coming…
(EUbusiness, 02 April 2011, 00:11 CET) – (BRUSSELS) – The European Union’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton said Friday she was “disturbed” by Iran’s reported doubling of a jail term for seven leaders of a religious minority,…
By Michael Day ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 1 APR 2011 Iranian prison authorities have told seven jailed Baha’i leaders that their twenty-year sentences which had been halved by an appeals court have now been…
Amnesty International Media Release For Immediate Release Thursday, March 31, 2011 Organization Repeats Call for Immediate Release of Seven Leaders Contact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, [email protected] (New York) — The reimposition of 20-year jail terms on…
(BWNS in Persian, 5 Farvardin 1390 [25 March 2011]) — On 26 Esfand 1389 (17 March 2011), former members of the Iranian Yaran (“Friends”) were visited by their families.
(Amnesty, 31 March 2011) The reimposition of 20-year jail terms on seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority is “outrageous”, Amnesty International said today as it made a renewed call for their immediate release. The…
(iran.bahai.us, 31 March 2011) oea — Iran’s judiciary system has re-imposed a 20-year sentence on the seven Baha’i leaders currently confined in the perilous Gohardasht Prison. The Baha’i International Community confirmed the move on Mar.…
(BWNS, 30 March 2011) NEW YORK — Just six months after Iran’s appeal court reduced to 10 years the jail terms handed down to seven Baha’i leaders, the prisoners have been told that their original…
By Michael Day ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 28 MAR 2011 The Baha’i New Year’s day on 21 March is usually a time for celebration but for one South Australian Baha’i the festivities this year…