Source: Reuters, goo.gl/I96kX3 BY LOUIS CHARBONNEAU UNITED NATIONS, Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:04pm BST (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s promises of greater freedoms for the Islamic Republic have not resulted in any major improvements regarding human…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-72 Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-26K On September 9, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence broke into the home of Wahideh Dana in Shiraz, searched it for about an hour, and confiscated religious books, images…
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1019 GENEVA — Iran has completely failed to live up to a series of promises it made regarding its treatment of Iranian Baha’is four years ago, says the Baha’i International Community in a new report. Titled…
Source: iranwire.com/features/6478/ Translation by Iran Press Watch Aida Ghajar Monday, September 1, 2014 Following the 1978 revolution and the rule of the clerics, opposition to Baha’is began in Iran. Arrests of members of local and National…
Source: HRANA, goo.gl/Y3rp9B Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-26E Saqi Feda’i, a Bahai from Mashhad, has been summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence and arrested. She was first arrested by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence…
Source: en.rsf.org/iran-iran-is-world-s-leading-jailer-of-28-07-2014,46712.html PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 28 JULY 2014. Ten women who work in the media are currently behind bars in the Islamic Republic The arrest on 22 July of two journalists and a photographer, including…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-63 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Tara Hooshmand, a Baha’i resident of Shiraz who had participated in the national university entrance exam this year, has been deprived of higher education despite passing the…
Source: hra-news.org/en/susan-tabyaniyan-sentenced-1-year-prison Susan Tabyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan who was arrested on May 31, 2014, has been sentenced to one year in prison. Her trial took place on August 7. After her arrest she was…
Source: iranwire.com By Aida Ghajar Translation by Iran Press Watch Persecution of Baha’is in Hamadan, : A letter to Mohamad Javad Larijani Mr. Sohrab Habibi, a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hamadan,…
Source: PCED Translation by Sen’s daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25Y September 10, 2014. On August 19, Farnaz Rouhani, who has completed four semesters of study in English translation at the Azad University in Shiraz, was expelled because of…
Source: taghato.net Translation by Iran Press Watch The person holding rank 113 in the university entrance exam in the field of mathematics was prevented from selecting a major because she is a Baha’i. (Do you…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/09/imprisoned-bahais/ Three imprisoned Baha’is have been refused early release and furlough to visit their small children unless they recant their faith and pledge not to teach at the Baha’i university, a relative told the International Campaign…
Source: Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (facebook group) Shadi Shirazi, a math student with top tier ranks in her entrance exams was denied admission to university because of her religious beliefs in Baha’i faith, according…
Source: news.bahai.org/story/1016 4 September 2014 GENEVA — Three high-level United Nations human rights experts today called on Iran to halt the ongoing destruction of a historic Baha’i cemetery in Shiraz, Iran, saying the action is an…
Source: iranwire.com/features/6483/ Translation by Iran Press Watch Ayda Ghajar September 2014 Zhinous Nemat Mahmoudi (1), a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iran, was tried and convicted by a secret court without…
Source: mehdikhalaji.com/archives/1103 Translation by Iran Press Watch Mehdi Khalaji 30 August, 2014 Below is the full text of my talk at the Twenty Forth Conference of the Association of Friends of Persian Culture, on twenty ninth…
