There can’t be a happy ending to our story, if only the human rights of certain segments of society are considered Editor’s Note: Dr. Vahdati is an Iranian-American human rights activist and freelance writer who…
Monthly Archives For July 2009
Update on the Baha’is of Iran
The Persian page of Baha’i World News Service (BWNS) has provided several updates on Wednesday, July 23, 2009, which appear below in translation by Iran Press Watch. Shiraz: Temporary leave of two Baha’i youth prisoners…
Paranoia, Utopianism, and Baha'i Persecution in Iran
By Robert Christian Earlier this week, Iran’s leaders canceled a trial set for the leadership of Iran’s Baha’i community, the Yaran. The seven Baha’i leaders, who had been scheduled for a show trial on charges…
Arson of a Baha’i Business in Semnan
The following was posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, by Human Rights Activists of Iran: Following a trend of attacks by unknown individuals on Baha’i-owned businesses in Semnan, another business was set on fire. A…
New Zealand Youth Address the Government of Iran
Editor’s Note: Recently, the Baha’i youth, and their friends and colleagues, gathered from different parts of the Pacific to pass a unanimous resolution at the New Zealand National Baha’i Youth Conference expressing their outcry for…
The Confessions of Dolgoruki: Story Writing and Identity Scripting
The Confessions of Dolgoruki was a 1930s political-spy fiction that was taken as history. It was the purported memoirs or political confessions of Dimitriy Ivanovich Dolgorukov (d. 1867), the Russian minister in Iran from 1845…
Summary Report | April – June 2009
Iran Press Watch is pleased to announce its second quarterly Summary Report for 2009. These reports cover arrests, incarcerations, and raids on homes; destruction of Bahá’í properties; denial of education; and deprivation of livelihood. Translations…
Two Historical Documents
Editor’s Note: In our continual effort to document the mistreatment of the Baha’is of Iran and the regime’s role in bringing about systematic discrimination against the Baha’is, two official documents by Iranian authorities relating to…
Religious Cleansing in Iran
“Every aspect of a non-Muslim is unclean,” proclaimed Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. He explained that non-Muslims rank between “feces” and “the sweat of a camel that has consumed impure food.” Other prominent ayatollahs, including…
Baha’is and Constructive Resilience
Editor’s Note: Following are notes from a talk by Prof. Michael Karlberg given at the Eastside Baha’i Center in Bellevue, Washington, on 27 June 2009, as part of a public program organized in support of…
Censorship and the Middle East
Editor’s Note: What does living in a region where censorship is totally common feel like? gulli:news asked Esra’a Al Shafei, a Middle Eastern internet activist, and Iran Press Watch is pleased to republish this interview.…
Justice, not Shame!
Editor’s Note: Dr. Naficy is a well-known Iranian poet, writer, and human rights and political activist. In April of this year, he wrote a brilliant essay, which Iran Press Watch was pleased to share extracts…
A woman was executed!
On Sunday, July 19, 2009, Human Rights Activists News Agency reported: A woman; who four years ago had unintentionally killed her father-in-law in the course of a family dispute, was executed last Tuesday morning in…
Trial for seven Baha'i leaders reportedly delayed
GENEVA — Iranian officials have reportedly told families of the seven Baha’i leaders currently held in Evin prison in Tehran that their trial has been delayed. No new trial date was given. Held for more…
Trial Delayed!
Iran Press Watch has been able to confirm that the trial of the former Yaran has been delayed. The families of the seven imprisoned former leaders of the Baha’i community of Iran have been advised…
Today is Baha'i Rights Day
The Baha’is in Iran and Egypt face ongoing persecution in form of human rights abuses and denial of basic civil rights. Their homes are raided and burned, their businesses closed, their children and youth denied…
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