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: 24 Baha’i citizens have been sentenced to 193 years’ imprisonment by a Gorgan court. These verdicts are among the…
Monthly Archives For February 2016
A Note from Nariman Mavaddat, a Baha’i Citizen, Following the Sentencing of His Mother to 6 Years in Prison
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the campaign “No to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’i Citizens”: Nariman, a Baha’i citizen, following the sentencing of his mother (Soudabeh Mehdi Nejad) to 6 years…
Dallas Mural Part of International Campaign Against Religious Persecution in Iran
Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com BY ALAENA HOSTETTER Harassed, arrested, jailed, tortured, killed…These are just a few of the options facing people of the Baha’i faith in Iran. Since its inception in 1844, the religion has been effectively criminalized…
A Baha’i Brought an Al Qaeda Man in from the Cold
Source: en.iranwire.com Monday 01 February 2016 Fereshteh Nasehi When I speak with Baha’i prisoners, the single phrase I hear most often is “My father was executed in the 1980s.” Rajai Shahr Prison near Tehran houses more Baha’i…
Iran’s Beleaguered Baha’is
Source: www.dailypioneer.com Following the dismantling of the sanctions regime, as India prepares to strengthen economic ties with Iran, it must ask itself: As a pluralistic nation, home to persecuted people from all over the world, can…