Source: montrealgazette.com/news/world/opinion-iran-should-stand-trial-for-persecution-of-bahai More from Irwin Cotler and Renée Maria Tremblay, Special to Montreal Gazette Published on: October 30, 2014Last Updated: October 30, 2014 3:44 PM EDT In Geneva on Friday, Oct. 31, the United Nations Human Rights Council is…
Monthly Archives For October 2014
Harassment and Threats against Baha’is in Semnan, Followed by Destruction of Their Property
Source: cshr.org.uk/human-rights-portal Centre for Supporters of Human Rights* Human Rights Magazine – News Translation by Iran Press Watch Centre for Supporters of Human Rights, Narges Tavassolian: A number of credible sources have reported intensifying harassment and…
Fifty Businesses Closed down following Bahai Holy Day Observances
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-196 Translation by Iran Press Watch Over fifty Bahai-run businesses were shut down on October 26, in Bandar Abbas, Kerman, Rafsanjan, and Jiroft. October 25 and 26 this year corresponded to the first and second…
I Wish God Would Send Another Messenger, so They Would Leave Us Alone
Source: www.roozonline.com/persian/news/newsitem/article/-8be3372a21.html Translation by Iran Press Watch Wednesday October 22 Baha’i prisoners from Gorgan at Raja’i Shahr Prison By Masood Bastani They are seven. These seven are known as ideological prisoners amongst the…
Beyond Human Rights: Building a World on Empathy
Source: www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2014/09/18/beyond-human-rights/ 4 September 2014 By Payam Akhavan Vancouver Human Rights Lecture I am honoured to deliver this year’s Vancouver Human Rights Lecture. I am most grateful for the invitation extended to me by the…
Farhad Eghbali Transferred to Raja’i Shahr Prison
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-171 Translation by Iran Press Watch Farhad Eghbali, a Bahai prisoner of conscience from Gorgan, has been exiled to Raja’i Shahr prison of Karaj, where he is currently in the quarantine unit. Mr. Eghbali was…
Movie Review: ‘To Light a Candle’ – A Bahai Story of Hope
Source: blogcritics.org/movie-review-to-light-a-candle-a-bahai-story-of-hope/ by William Lambers The plight of the Bahai minority in Iran has been featured in my previous interviews with Nava Ghalili and Niknaz Aftahi. Now there is a new documentary film which tells of the resilience and hope of…
The world governing body of the Baha’i Faith praises Bahai’s of Iran for their “unrelenting pursuit of knowledge”, describing BIHE as “one of the most outstanding examples of constructive resilience in the modern age”
Source: www.payamha-iran.org Translation by Baha’i World Center The world governing body of the Baha’i Faith1 has written an open letter 2 to the oppressed Baha’is of Iran which is so important and so eloquent that Iran…
Judiciary Moves to Close the File on the Killing of Ataollah Rezvani
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-155 Translation by Sen’s daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-28k Thirteen months after the execution-style killing of Mr. Ataollah Rezvani, a well-known member of the Bahai community in Bandar Abbas (on August 24, 2013), the judicial authorities are pressing…
New Documentary ‘to Light a Candle’ Examines Baha’i Struggles in Iran
Source: www.worldreligionnews.com 13 OCT 2014, POSTED BY KYLE GLATZ NEW FILM TO LIGHT A CANDLE EXAMINES THE PERSECUTION OF BAHA’IS IN IRAN. For millions of people around the world, the term Baha’i will have little or no…
Imprisoned BIHE Professor Writes to His Grandchildren about BIHE and Importance of Education
Source: taraneh.org Translation by Iran Press Watch A letter from Farhad Sedghi in Rajai Shahr prison, addressed to his three grandchildren, who just started school for the first time in September 2014 To my grandchildren, With…
Bahai Youth Sentenced in Shiraz
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-140 Translation by Sen’s daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-28c Farhud Yazdani, an 18-year-old Bahai living in Shiraz, has been sentenced to one year in prison, for participating in social networks used to plan a mass water-fight in…
A Letter from the Heart by an Iranian Baha’i Prisoner to the Iranian People
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch A point of view which has not yet changed since at least 30 years ago. HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency) – Ramin Zibaei* is a Baha’i Institute for…
Detention Orders of Three Baha’is in Mashhad Extended
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-128 Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-283 The temporary detention of three Baha’is from Mashhad who have been held without trial since June 1 has been extended for another month. May Khoolusi, Dori Amri and Shayan…
Jamaleddin Khanjani and Ali Salanpour Sent to Hospital, Returned without Treatment
Source: https://hra-news.org/fa/prisoners/b-105 Translation by Sen’d Daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-27X Jamaleddin Khanjani, aged 81, is one of seven Bahai ‘Yaran’ (national facilitators for the Bahais in Iran) who were sentenced to 20 years in prison after their May 2008…
Mohammad Seifzadeh and Heshmatollah Tabarzadi’s Letter about a Group of Our Fellow Iranians Being Denied an Education
Source: hra-news.org/fa/letters/hs Wednesday, 24 September 2014 HARANA News – Mohammad Seifzadeh and Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, two of the ideological prisoners held at Rajai Shahr (sometimes called Gohardosht) Prison in Karaj, have reacted to the continued violation of…