Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Three Baha’is, Naser Bagheri, Faez Bagheri and Rooha Imani, have been sentenced to four years and six months in jail by a court in Yazd. …
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Under Pressure from Security Forces, Samsung Company Fires Baha’i Employee
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – In continued efforts to marginalize the Iranian Baha’i community, Yazd security officials put pressure on the administrator of a Samsung subsidiary to fire marketing representative Sahar Rouhani on…
Arrest of A Bahá’i Citizen in Yazd
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Mehran Bandi Amirabadi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Yazd, has been arrested by security forces. According to HRANA, the human rights activists News Agency in…
Baha’i Citizen of Yazd Released from Prison upon Completion of Sentence
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Iman Rashidi, a Baha’i citizen living in Yazd, who was sentenced to three years imprisonment and one year suspended imprisonment as one of the 20…
Fariborz Baghi Released from Prison Upon Completion of Three-Year Sentence
Source: www.bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 17 December 2017 Based on a report by the “No to Harassment & Imprisonment of Bahá’i Compatriots” campaign, Fariborz Baghi, a Bahá’í citizen from Yazd was released from prison upon completion of his…
Report on the Arrest of two Baha’i citizens in Isfahan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from HRANA, Human Rights Activists’ News Agency in Iran, Ms. Hiva Yazdan Mehdiabadi, a Baha’i resident of Yazd, was detained by security forces twenty days…
Baha’i Musician Arrested in Tehran
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Behnam Rouhanifard, an Iranian Baha’i and singer-composer from Tehran, has been arrested by security forces. According to a human rights watchdog in Iran, Mr. Rouhanifard was arrested on 03…
Religious Discrimination Explicit in Iran’s Penal Code
Source: news.bahai.org 25 July 2017 BIC NEW YORK — A court in Yazd has recently sentenced a man convicted of the public murder of a Baha’i to just 11 years in prison and two years away from…
They Confessed to Killing a Baha’i, but Were Freed
Source: iranwire.com By ARASH AZIZI The confession came pure and simple from one of two brothers who, in September 2016, stabbed a man to death in the Iranian city of Yazd. Murderers don’t usually confess to their crimes.…
Extrajudicial Killings Supported by Law and Islamic Jurisprudence
Source: www.ihrr.org By Kamyar Behrang Perhaps when Mirza Mohammad Reza Kermani shot the Qajar king, Naser al-Din Shah, on 30 April 1896, Iran’s contemporary history entered a different era. Mirza Reza Kermani was first attracted to the…
Mass arrests of Baha’is in Yazd
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Seven citizens were arrested in Yazd because of their belief in the Baha’i Faith. According to the report from the Website of Human Rights in Iran, quoting BahaiNews, Farzad…
Fariba Ashtari Released from Yazd Prison, After Serving a Two-Year Sentence
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report by BahaiNews, Fariba Ashtari, a Bahá’í citizen residing in Yazd, has been released from Yazd Prison, after serving her sentence. According to BahaiNews, this Bahá’í…
Expulsion of a Baha’i Couple from Payame-Noor University in Yazd Province
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by BahaiNews, a young Baha’i couple ‒ Azadeh Zolfaghari and Masoud Ghadirzadeh ‒ were expelled from university, owing to their belief in the Baha’i Faith. Based…
Mahbod Ettehadi, 23, Resident of Yazd, Arrested on 1 January 2017
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Human Rights in Iran website, citing Bahianews, security agents arrested Mahbod, and his whereabouts is still unknown. Some sources speculate that he might be held in…
A Paradise for Murderers
Source: news.gooya.com By Bijan Masumian Translation by Iran Press Watch The root of the repression and murder of religious minorities in Iran can be traced back to the spread of religious hatred by Muslim extremists who…
Murder of a Baha’i in Yazd and Inquiry About the Rights of Baha’is
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
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