Source: www.tutu.org.za/education-is-not-a-crime-campaign January 30, 2015 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African social rights activist, anti-apartheid hero, and human rights campaigner, who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, truly needs no introduction. And today His Grace…
Monthly Archives For January 2015
Nobel Laureates Speak out for Baha’is Ahead of LA Event
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of five Nobel Prize laureates to endorse the Education is Not A Crime campaign Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid hero who received the Nobel Peace…
Imprisoned BIHE Educator with Heart Disease Denied Medical Treatment
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: Foad Moghaddam*, a physician and one of the managers of the online university of the Baha’is, despite heart problems and other health issues,…
Rozita Vaseghi Has Been Freed after Five Years Imprisonment
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch 22 January, 2015 HRANA News Agency- Rozita Vaseghi, a Baha’i, has been freed from Vakeel-Abad prison in Mashhad after five years imprisonment. According to HRANA, the news agency of…
Interview with a Baha’i Student Who Was Expelled after One Hour
Source: Radio JiBi, Published January 18, 2015 Behrad Azargan, a student in the field of Electronic Technology in the Department of Industrial Power at Mulla Sadra Polytechnic Institute of Technology of Ramsar, after passing five…
Bahai Home and Workplace Raided in Shiraz
Source: wp.me/pNMoJ-2dh January 21, 2015 On January 19, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided the workplace and then the home of Mr. Hasan Salehi in Shiraz. They had a search warrant for both properties. The…
Activist Imprisoned for Supporting Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org/fa/thought-and-expression/atena-3 Translation by Iran Press Watch Thursday, the 8th of January, 2015 HRANA – Atena Farghadani, a civil rights activist, has been summoned to the 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court by Judge Abu’l-Qasim…
My Grandfather Passed Away in Adel-Abad Prison
Source: www.tribunezamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Parisa Sabet I don’t quite recollect “Golestan Javeed,” the old Baha’i cemetery of Shiraz, which has been recently razed to the ground. I only know that my paternal grandfather,…
Expulsion of a Baha’i Student after Studying for a Semester
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-420 Translation by Iran Press Watch January 11, 2015 HRANA News Agency Noora Mossama, a student majoring in Computer Software Engineering at the State University of Mazandaran, was dismissed at the end of her first…
Why Are Burial Rights Being Denied to a Baha’i in Iran?
11 JAN 2015, POSTED BY ALISON LESLEY Source: www.worldreligionnews.com/issues/why-are-burial-rights-being-denied-to-a-bahai-in-iran SHAMEL BINA PASSED AWAY IN OCTOBER 2014, BUT HIS REMAINS ARE UNBURIED BECAUSE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE REFUSING BURIAL RIGHTS. What should have been a period of mourning for most…
Arrest of Several Baha’i Residents of Abadeh in Connection to the Baha’i Virtual University in Iran
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: Friday, January 2, 2015 HRANA News Agency – Agents of the Ministry of Information in the city of Abadeh arrested Farshid Rastegar, as well as other Baha’i students…
Bahai Suffers Lethal Poisoning in Shiraz
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-406 Translation by Sen’s daily Leila Kargar, a 42-year-old Bahai woman living in Shiraz, has been poisoned and killed by an unknown person, using Aluminium Phosphide, a powder that is used to kill insects and…