Source: en.iranwire.com Friday 15 January 2016 Roland Elliott Brown In Iran, deceased members of the Baha’i faith cannot rest in peace, nor can a Baha’i’s relatives count on being allowed to grieve in peace. According to…
Monthly Archives For January 2016
Baha’i Student Expelled from Azad University Citing “Insufficient File” Despite High Rank in Nationwide Entrance Exam
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from the “NO to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’is in Iran” campaign, Shomeis Pour Shah Rezai, a Baha’i student from Karaj, a city west…
Shamim Rouhani Transferred to Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a “BahaiNews” report, Shamim Rouhani, a Baha’i citizen residing in Ahwaz, was transferred to prison in order to start his prison sentence. Earlier, on Tuesday 5th November…
The Man Behind Iran’s Most Famous Tower
Source: www.bbc.com By Rozita Riazati For 45 years, Iran’s most famous modern monument, the Azadi (Freedom) Tower in Tehran, has been the backdrop to every major news story coming out of the country. A plaza for…
Maziar Bahari Visits Dave the Chimp’s New London Mural for #NotACrime and Explains Why He Started the Campaign
Source: Education Is Not a Crime Maziar Bahari visits Dave the Chimp‘s new London mural for #NotACrime and explains why he started the campaign. “The Iranian government is discriminating against the Baha’is and other Iranians on a regular basis. So…
#notacrime Mural Moves Plight of Iran’s Baha’i Community to Bondi Beach
Source: www.abc.net.au PHOTO: The Bondi Beach mural is the third in Sydney as part of the campaign. (Supplied: Hayley Francis) A concrete wall in Bondi Beach has been transformed by street artists as part of a worldwide campaign…
The Role of Baha’is in Semnan Province, Why Is 98% of the Population of Semnan Province Literate?
Source: www.pyknet.net Translation by Iran Press Watch The head of the Education Ministry in Semnan province announced that 98% of the population of Semnan is literate, and that the province of Semnan ranks first in terms…
Sanandaj Ministry Of Intelligence Applies A New Tactic Against Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org HRANA NEws Agency – The Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj has detained a number of persons who have contact with a Bahai family, and has pressured them to submit private complaints against the family,…
Final Trial Of The Gorgan Baha’is
Source: hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – On December 27, 2015, the Revolutionary Court in Gorgan, in Iran’s Golestan Province, held the eighth and last in a series of trials of the Baha’is who were arrested in…
Afshin Ighani Released at the End of His Sentence
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to reports from the “NO to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’is in Iran” campaign, Afshin Ighani, a Baha’i resident of Semnan in northern Iran, has been released…
Foad Khanjani Released at the End of His Sentence
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency: The Baha’i Foad Khanjani has been released from Rajai Shahr prison, as he had served his entire sentence. According to the report of Human Rights Activists…
Iran’s Hypocrisy on Persecution
Source: www.commentarymagazine.com MICHAEL RUBIN / JAN. 4, 2016 Saudi Arabia executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, perhaps Saudi Arabia’s most famous Shi‘ite scholar and a man who has professed non-violence even as urging Shi‘ites to protest in order to achieve…