(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…
Monthly Archives For April 2011
US concerned about prosecution of minorities in Iran
(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…
EU's Ashton demands freedom for Bahai prisoners in Iran
(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,…
Iran Reinstates Draconian Sentence for Baha'i Leaders
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…
AI USA: Iranian Baha'i Leaders Hit By 'Vindictive' Sentence Extension, Says Amnesty International
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…
Families visit former Yaran
(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.
IRANIAN BAHA'I LEADERS HIT BY 'VINDICTIVE' SENTENCE EXTENSION
(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…
U.S. State Dept. and many more condemn escalating persecution of the Baha’is in Iran
(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.…