Source: www.bic.org UNITED NATIONS—4 November 2015—Growing up in Iran, Naeim Tavakkoli recalls being forced to sit on the floor in school to dry out on rainy days so that the “unclean” water he shed as a…
Monthly Archives For November 2015
Susan Tebyaniyan Released From Prison at the End of Her Sentence
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily Susan Tebyaniyan, a Bahai from Semnan who has been serving a one-year sentence in Isfahan prison, was released from prison on November 2. She was charged with propaganda against the…
BIHE Instructor Released From Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Amanollah Mostaghim one of the imprisoned staff members of the Bahai Open University (BIHE) in Iran, was released from Raja’i Shahr prison today. He was sentenced to five years in…
“Their Progress and Development Are Blocked” — The economic oppression of Iran’s Baha’is
Source: www.bic.org A special report of the Baha’i International Community (October 2015) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the government of Iran has engaged in a broad, systematic persecution of its Baha’i minority. One lesser known aspect…