[iranian.com 23 May 2011] iranhumanrights.org Iranian authorities should stop attacks on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education and end policies that discriminatorily deprive members of the Baha’i Faith access to higher education, the International Campaign…
05/19/2011: Community Against Denial of Higher Education: Ms. Mahvash Sabet and Ms. Fariba Kamalabadi, two Baha’i prisoners and members of the 7-member Baha’i leadership council of Iran known as the Yaran [“Friends”], were transferred from…
The recent attack on The Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) in Iran and the arrest of its faculty members has caused a great reaction in many corners. The Government of Iran has spread false…
[Sen’s Daily, 22-May-2011] PCED, May 22 [updated May 23] Today, officials from the Ministry of Intelligence have been entering the homes of many of the academic staff of the Bahai Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), a…
[BWNS 22 May 2011] GENEVA — A coordinated series of raids have been carried out on the homes of several Iranian Baha’is, active in a community initiative to provide a higher education programme for young members who…
The Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studied in corporation with Foundation for Iranian Studies presents an International Symposium on Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July…
[19 May 2011] HRANA News Agency – Saman Ostevar, a Baha’i citizen and children’s rights activist, who was arrested on March 2, 2011 in the city of Kerman, still remains in Bam’s Prison, and uncertainty surrounds…
(FrontLine, 18 May 2011) Tehran Bureau of Frontline reported: The appeals court in Tehran has suspended the one-year prison sentence of university student Dorsa Sobhani for five years. Sobhani, a human rights advocate and member of…
(edu-right.net) Letter of Maria Horr, mother of Mr.Vesal and Ms. Sara Mahboobi, two citizens denied access to higher education because of their Baha’i religion, arrested in the city of Saari (Northern Iran) . 05/10/2011: Community Against…
On April 28, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2011 Annual Report.The report describes – beginning on page 78 – the “severe” persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran from April 2010 to March 2011. Iran…
(HRA 14 May 2011) HRANA News Agency – On Wednesday, May 12, 2011, after being summoned and arraigned by Karaj’s Revolutionary Court, Ruhollah Zibahi, a Baha’i citizen from Karaj, was transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison.
On Saturday (May 14, 2011), six of Iran’s seven Baha’i Leaders – Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Vahid Tizfahm – will begin their fourth year in prison. The seventh member…
(BWNS 16-May-2011) GENEVA — The injustice being faced by countless citizens of Iran has been highlighted around the world, as supporters marked three years since the arrest of the country’s imprisoned Baha’i leaders. In a message…
(RAHANA 8 May 2011) The family of Baha’i citizen Vajiollah Mirza-Golpour has stated that he has been transferred to the Execution Ward.
Toronto, Ontario, 28 April 2011 (CBNS) — When 81-year-old Ashraf Khanjani-the wife of jailed Baha’i leader Jamaloddin Khanjani, 77, was on her deathbed, her last wish was to see her husband, said Nika Khanjani, her…
Participants in the Capitol Hill reception to honor the seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community, entering their fourth year of imprisonment, included: U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, U.S. Representative Michael Grimm, State Department’s Kathleen Fitzpatrick,…
