Source: Baha’i World News Service 29 December 2014 GENEVA — The body of a Baha’i has been held in the morgue for nearly two months in the large, southern Iranian city of Ahvaz because local…
Monthly Archives For December 2014
Bahai Summoned and Warned in Salmas
Source: nisannews.net/?p=3679 Translation by Sen’s daily Mansour Lahiji, a Bahai from Kerman province who settled in Salmas (West Azerbayjan province) with his family three years ago, was summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence in the city…
Baha’is Banned from the Optometry Sector in Tehran
Source: Sen’s daily The Association of Optometry Manufacturers and Sellers in Tehran held its eighth trade fair, the Optics Exhibition, in Vesal Avenue on December 16 to 19. Eighty businesses took part. Not only were…
I Grew up Away from My Mother, in Prison Meeting Halls
Source: www.roozonline.com November 26, 2014 Translation by Iran Press Watch The story of many years of prison visits, by Fariba Kamalabadi’s daughter By Fereshteh Ghazi [email protected] She was thirteen years…
Baha’is Have No Citizenship Rights, Says Grand Ayatollah
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org A high-ranking cleric and Khomeini-era member of the Supreme Judicial Council has told Fars News Agency that Baha’is are not entitled to citizenship rights. The statement was made only weeks after Mohammad Javad Larijani, Head of…
A Baha’i Student Interviews Three Members of Iranian Parliament; All Tell Her She Has No Right to a University Education Because She Is Baha’i.
Source: en.iranwire.com Wednesday 17 December 2014 IranWire Citizen Journalist The following piece was written by an Iranian citizen journalist on the ground inside the country, who writes under a pseudonym to protect his identity. I am a third-year…
Prayer Leader of Rafsanjan: Baha’is Are Untouchable and Have to Leave Town
Source: Persian Deutsche Welle (PDW) Translation by Iran Press Watch 12/04/14 Abbas Ramazanipour, the Islamic prayer leader of Rafsanjan – a city in southern Iran – in the presence of many officials of that city, declared…
Neda Farsatipour and Farahnaz Moqadam Begin Their Prison Sentences
Source: hra-news.org/en HRANA News Agency – On December 10, Mrs. Farahnaz Moghadam responded to a summons to the Revolutionary Court in Urumia and was taken to the city’s central prison to begin serving her three-year sentence.…
Five-year sentence of Hassan Momtaz confirmed
Source: hra-news.org Hassan Momtaz reports, on December 8, that he has heard via his lawyer that the review court has confirmed his five-year sentence for educational activities with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). He…
One Thousand Years Incarceration for Iranian Baha’is
Source: sahamnews.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Published on Wednesday, 26 Nov 2014 During the last few months, economic and social pressure, along with widespread arrests and imprisonment of members of the Baha’i community, have increased.…
Susan Tebyanian: I’ll Be Back in Jail in a Few Days
Source: en.iranwire.com/features/6184/ Wednesday 10 December 2014 Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour When you hear Susan Tebyanian speak, it is not the type of voice you associate with a woman that could be swept off to prison at a second’s notice.…
Fariba Kamalabadi’s Letter to Her Beautiful Daughter the Bride
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday 27 November, 2014 Mother prominently absent from daughter’s wedding Fariba Kamalabadi, who has been sentenced to twenty years of prison for being a member of the Baha’i Yaran…
Friday Prayer Leader in Rafsanjan Proposes Expelling All Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org/en HRANA News Agency – In a December 2 meeting with provincial officials, the Friday Prayer leader of Rafsanjan, Hojjat-al-Islam Abbas Ramezanipour said that there were a number of “sects” in the province, and because people…
Interrogation of a Bahai girl in Tabriz
Source: hra-news.org/fa Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2aQ On December 4, unidentified individuals claiming to represent the “Basij” voluntary militia forced a 19-year-old Bahai girl, Ilka Misaghi to get into a car, on a street in Tabriz,…
Former Prisoner of Iran-Iraq War Begins 3-Year Sentence
Source: hra-news.org/en Fardin Aghsani, a Baha’i from Urmia who was taken prisoner during the Iran-Iraq war, and held in Iraq for two and a half years, reported to the central prison in Urmia today to begin serving…
Soheila Aqdasi and Noushin Mithaqi Begin 6-Month Sentences
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-303 Translation by Sen’s daily at wp.me/pNMoJ-2aq On November 30th, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence arrested Noushin Misaghi and Soheila Aghdasi, Bahai women living in Urmia, in Iran’s Azerbaijan province, and took them to Urmia…
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