Source: hra-news.org/en/sentence-adnan-rahmat-panah-confirmed-court-appeal 23rd September, 2014 HRANA News Agency – The one year in prison sentence of Adnan Rahmat Panah, the Bahai citizen has been confirmed in appeal court. According to the report of Human Rights Activists…
Monthly Archives For September 2014
Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab Beaten in Prison, Again
Source: hra-news.org/en/shahram-chiniyan-miandavab-beaten-prison 24th September, 2014 HRANA News Agency – On September 20, Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab, a Bahai shopkeeper from Tehran who is serving an 8-year sentence, was beaten as he was being taken to a judge…
Reformist Parliamentarian Insulted Baha’i Students Deprived of Taking University Entrance Exam
Source: taghato.net/article/8151 Translation by Iran Press Watch Publication date: 24 Sept 2014 Taghato: Ali Reza Mahjoub, a member of the reformist faction of the Islamic Parliament, was approached in his office by several Bahai’s who…
The Baha’i University Applicants: The Deprivation Continues
by Maryam Ghadirzadeh Source: www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2014/09/140925_mgh_bahai_students Translation by Iran Press Watch 25 September 2014 Baha’is who have taken the nationwide entrance examination in Iran say that their names have been deleted from the list of accepted students.…
A Letter by Rozita Eshraghi, Whose Three Family Members Were Executed in Shiraz Because They Were Baha’is
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch by Rozita Eshraghi Monday September 1, 2014 This Letter of Suffering is addressed to all who claim that no Baha’is have been imprisoned or discriminated against due to their…
Iran switches tactics to conceal how it prevents Baha’is from entering university
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1021 25 September 2014 TEHRAN — Shadan Shirazi had always been an exemplary student, showing special strength in math and science, according to numerous accounts in the Persian media. So it was not surprising…
Human rights and the Baha’i question absent from President Rouhani’s UN speech
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1023 25 September 2014 UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech to the United Nations today failed to address a number of fundamental human rights issues in Iran, including the reason for Iran’s continued unjust…
The Case For Cultural Enrichment For Iran
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Marjan Keypour Greenblatt Co-Founder, Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) Dr. Kavian Milani Co-Founder, Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) While we as Americans believe that education is the vehicle for…
Human Rights Groups Call on Iranian President Rouhani to Let UN Monitors Visit Iran
Source: Bahai International Community, United Nations Office, goo.gl/f2n42S Topic: Situation of Iranian Baha’is NEW YORK—24 September 2014 An ad hoc coalition of human rights organizations is asking Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to honor and facilitate requests from…
Shirin Ebadi’s Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon Convince Iranian Authorities to Be More Considerate toward Sufis and Other Religious Communities
Source: www.majzooban.org, goo.gl/7GKaJJ Sunday, Sep 21 2014 Tehran, 20-09-2014, security forces attacked and arrested Gonabadi Sufis who were going to stage a peace rally in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office. On the same day, Shirin…
Dervishes Were Beaten, Humiliated and Injured by Security Forces
Sunday, Sep 21 201 Source: www.majzooban.org, goo.gl/YbyWjY In the second day of protest gathering by Gonabadi Dervishes in front of the prosecutor office today on Sunday 21 september at 9 a.m security forces and police are…
Film Shows Fight for Education by Iran’s Baha’is
Source: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/film-shows-fight-for-education-by-irans-bahais/2015736.article 18 SEPTEMBER 2014 | BY MATTHEW REISZ To Light a Candle documentary spotlights work of underground Baha’i Institute for Higher Education in face of persecution Campaigning: Maziar Bahari A new film will form part of a major…
Anahita Ettehadi’s Exam Result Withheld for Being a Baha’i
Source: www.farzanfaramarzi.com/2014/09/blog-post_12.html Translation by Iran Press Watch A Baha’i student who has been deprived of education in Iran, Anahita Ettehadi, has sat for her exam, after registering for National University Entrance Exam in the month…
Shame and Nothing Else!
Source: PCED, goo.gl/T2Hfmk Translation by Iran Press Watch Mohammad Nourizad and Dr. Mohammad Maleki visit a group of Baha’is who have been deprived of higher education. The Society to Combat Discrimination in Education – The Iranian…
The ‘Yellow Badge’ of the Digital Age
Situation of the Baha’is of Iran Source: www.bic.org/statements/Situation-Bahais-Iran-1 Human Rights Council 27 – item 4 16 September 2014 Geneva Yesterday, the Baha’i International Community released a document entitled “Unfulfilled Promises”, which reviews the commitments the Islamic…
No Baha’i Student Has Ever Returned to University
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com/174825 Translation by Iran Press Watch 10 September, 2014 In an open letter to Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s President, 360 Baha’is who have been barred from university have declareed: “despite the current government’s promises, barring…