Source: aasoo.org This film is shortened video of a trial held in 1981 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court at Evin Prison in Iran. It is the main segment of the trial, held in 1981, of seven…
Monthly Archives For October 2015
Baha’i Student Expelled From School for Not Participating in the Congregational Friday Prayer
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by “BahaiNews”, Parsa Hemmat, a Baha’i citizen residing in Isfahan, has been prevented from continuing his education. Parsa Hemmat, who was in his second year of…
Imprisoned BIHE Instructor Has Been Denied the Right to a Furlough
Source: hra-news.org October 6, 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Nasim Bagheri, one of the instructors at the Baha’i online university (BIHE), who has been imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin…
Two Baha’is of Yazd Have Been Sent to Prison to Serve Their 3 Year Sentence
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Campaign to Stop the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’is reports that on Tuesday the 6th of October two Baha’i women – Ms. Nateghe Ja’afari Naimi, who has been sentenced…
President’s Office Tells Baha’is They Have No Right to Higher Education
Source: bahainews1 5 October 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch Anisa Motahar, a Baha’i citizen of Isfahan, who received a two-year suspended sentence in 2011 for “proselytizing and collaboration with anti-government organizations,” and Kiana Rahimi, have…
The Spiritual Assembly that Vanished
Source: bbc.com/persian Sepehr Atefi 11 October 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch On 11 November 1979, Dr. Alimorad Davoodi, secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the Baha’is of Iran, and professor of philosophy…
In a Few Days We’re Going to Jail Because We’re Baha’is
Source: en.iranwire.com Wednesday 14 October 2015 Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour Two teachers face long prison sentences for educating Baha’is, who are banned from pursuing further education in Iran. After repeated harassment and intimidation, married couple Azita Rafizadeh and Peyman…
Iranian Baha’i Refugees the Subject of Carleton University Symposium
Source: www.bahainews.ca Toronto, Ontario, 1 October 2015 (CBNS) — “You will be scattered like gems across the country.” That is what Mina Sanaee recalled Douglas Martin telling her when he visited Baha’i refugees in Pakistan…
Canadian Baha’i Refugee Experience Sheds Light on Topical Issue
Source: news.bahai.org 6 October 2015 OTTAWA — The Baha’i Community of Canada in partnership with the Canadian Immigration Historical Society as well as Carleton University’s Centre for Public History, Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, and its Department…
I Will Extend My Protests To Mehrvilla!
Source: www.nurizad.info Little Aref is ten years old. His father has registered his name at the “Gahvareh Danesh” [Cradle of Knowledge] elementary school in Mehrvilla, Karaj, and has also paid the school fees. Aref went to…
Penalty for a Baha’i “Spy”: 20 Years in Prison. Penalty for a Non-Baha’i Spy, 10 Years.
Source: iranwire.com Friday, September 11, 2015 By Mehrangiz Kar Translation by Iran Press Watch I was a guest at the 25th gathering of the Baha’is of the world, which is held in September in Chicago every…
A Brief Letter About the Life and Patience of One Family: Farah Baghi at Yazd Prison
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Harana News- Farah Baghi, a Baha’i prisoner in Yazd since 10 February 2015, in a letter addressed to the Islamic Revolutionary Attorney of Yazd, talks about her family,…
Ten-Year-Old Baha’i Student Expelled
Source: bahaicamp.com 30 September 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the “No to the Persecution and Imprisonment of Baha’i Citizens” campaign, a 10-year-old child has been expelled from his primary school in Karaj because…
Baha’i Applicant Denied Higher Education for 17 Years
Source: iranwire.com Saturday, 19 September 2015 by Mahrokh Gholamhoseinpour Translation by Iran Press Watch Over the last month, as usual, a large number of Baha’i students who participated in the National University Entrance Examination received…
Transfer of Vahed Kholoosi to Section 4 of Rajai Shahr Prison
Source: hra-news.org September 29, 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today at noon, Vahed Kholoosi, a civil rights activist and an expelled Baha’i student, was transferred to Hall 12 of Section…
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