Private sources in Iran report that on Sunday, October 26, three Baha’is were arrested in Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in central Iran. They were charged with forming classes for the education…
Monthly Archives For October 2008
Expelled for Being a Baha'i – The Case of Mona Muhabbati
[In continuing the series of personal descriptions of Baha’i students who have been expelled from their institutions of higher education, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists of Iran published the following account on Wednesday, 22…
Baha'i Leaders Imprisoned in Qa'emshahr
[On Wednesday, 29 October 2008, the organization Human Rights Activists of Iran posted the following report at: http://hrairan.com/Archive_87/1151.html. The same report was also echoed online by Iran Press News: http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/048384.htm . A translation follows. Ahang…
Qom’s New Committee on Religious Minorities
[On Sunday, 26 October 2008, Rooz online service published the following article by Shahram Rafizadeh, at: http://www.roozonline.com/archives/2008/10/post_9741.php. The article was entitled “Formation of a Committee on Monitories for the Purpose of Combating Other Religions”. A…
Anti-Baha’i Activities Before the Islamic Revolution
The online service Shahrvand Rouz has published an interview with Askar Nasira’i, a prayer leader and the custodian of the well-known Muhaddithin Mosque (http://www.shahrvandemrouz.com/content/2809/default.aspx). This undated interview was placed online on Sunday, 26 October 2008,…
More Pictures of the Devastation at Darzikola's Baha'i Cemetery
On Monday, 27 October 2008, Iran Press News (http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/048259.htm) reported on the desecration of the Baha’i Cemetery of Darzikola, a village in the vicinity of Qa’emshahr (former Shahi) on Thursday, 23 October. This article consists…
Update on the Darzikola Cemetery
[On Sunday, 26 October 2008, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists of Iran published a short repot on the recent desecration of the Baha’i cemetery of Darizkola: http://hrairan.org/Archive_87/1140.html. This is a crime about which Iran…
Arrest of Two More Baha'is
The following is an unconfirmed report and requires further verification by the Baha’i institutions before it is accepted as factual. For that purpose, readers are advised to consult Baha’i World News Service (http://news.bahai.org/), the official…
Tehran Conference on Religion (and video)
About 10 world figures, including former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and some former presidents and heads of European governments, attended a conference in Tehran in mid October 2008 on the relationship between religion and politics,…
Desecration of the Baha'i Cemetery of Darzikola [Updated]
Darzikola is a small town associated with Qa’im-Shahr (pop. 175,000 in 2006) in the province of Mazandaran, in the northern part of Iran. It is also near the larger towns of Babul and Sari (see…
Document Vindicating Baha’i Youth Prisoners in Shiraz
[On Thursday, 23 October 2008, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists of Iran published the following report vindicating the position of the Baha’i youth presently incarcerated solely for providing educational and socio-economic assistance to the…
Why Islamists Persecute the Baha'is
By Amil Imani [On Friday, 6 June 2008, Amil Imani, an Iranian intellectual who has written on discrimination against the Baha’is of Iran in the past, posted the following essay on his site: http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=2. Since…
Report of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Iran
On October 1, the UN Secretary-General issued a report on the situation of human and civil rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report’s summary stated: The present report, submitted in accordance with General…
100 Years of Regress
By Ahang Rabbani Anyone who has read much Iranian history of the last 500 years or so knows that in many instances Iranians developed extremely brutal methods for torture and punishment, which unfortunately has become…
Harvard's "Scholars at Risk" Initiative
On Monday, October 20, Drew Faust, the President of Harvard University, circulated the following letter: Dear Colleagues, I am writing to bring your attention to a Harvard initiative concerning scholars who face persecution. Seven years…
U.N. concerned on Iran Human Rights
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed concerns about possible human rights abuses in Iran and urged the country to do more to combat discrimination against women and minorities. While praising…
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