Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a BahaiNews report, following the repeated closure of Baha’i citizens’ businesses in recent months, the Office of Public Places in Mazandaran province has extrajudicially demanded that Baha’i…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
Disabled Student Barred from University for Being Baha’i
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by BahaiNews, Nasim Mahboub Rahvafa is a Baha’i resident of Shiraz who was barred from entering university after successful participation in the Iranian University Entrance Examination…
Expulsion of Six Baha’i Students from Islamic Azad University of Roudehen
Source: BahaiNews1 Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch On 31 December 2016, six Baha’i citizens who were students at Islamic Azad University of Roudehen were expelled because of their belief in the…
Bahai Student Expelled in Orumiyeh
Source: Tavaana Translation by Iran Press Watch Last week Shokoufeh Ranjbar, a midwifery student in Orumiyeh, was expelled from the University after she had completed eighty credits of education because she is a Baha’i. According…
Pegah Dehghani, a Baha’i, Expelled from University
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i News Press, Pegah Dehghani Muhammadi, a Baha’i resident of Tehran province, has been expelled from university due to her belief in the Baha’i Faith. Based…
Two Baha’i Students Expelled from University Due to Religious Belief
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Date: 16th January 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch Dorna Esmailie and Maedeh Hossieni Rad, from the cities of Shiraz and Esfahan, were expelled from university because of their belief as Baha’is. According to…
U.S. Suspends Immigration Program Helping Non-Muslim Iranians
Source: www.pbs.org BY GEORGE JAHN AND ALICIA A. CALDWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA — Austria has shut its door to about 300 non-Muslim Iranians hoping to use the country as a way station before establishing new homes…
Top Ranking Baha’i Student Expelled from University Due to His Religious Belief
Source: www.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, Nima Ighanian, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was expelled from university because…
Iranian University Conceals Evidence of Expelling Baha’i Students for Religious Beliefs
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Fifteen Baha’i Students Expelled in December and January At least 15 Baha’i students were expelled from Iranian universities between December 2016 and January 2017, with university officials trying to eliminate any trace of the…
Mass arrests of Baha’is in Yazd
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Seven citizens were arrested in Yazd because of their belief in the Baha’i Faith. According to the report from the Website of Human Rights in Iran, quoting BahaiNews, Farzad…
Journalist Challenges Qom Ayatollah About Persecution of Baha’is
By Masih Alinejad In this interview that Masih Alinejad has conducted with Ayatollah Alidoost, she directed him a question about the possibility of the expulsion of Muslim-Americans from the US after the presidency of Trump.…
Iran: Overcoming Persecution to Graduate
Source: Study International Staff The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects…
Martyr’s Foundation Refuses to Recognize Baha’i Soldier Who Died in War
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The family of a Baha’i soldier who died on the Piranshahr front during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war has asked in a letter for the Miyandoab Martyr’s Foundation to…
Brutal Home Inspection and Detention of Kerman Baha’i, Samir Kholoosi
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Samir Kholoosi, a Baha’I resident of Kerman, was arrested and taken to the detention center of the Ministry of Information by security agents on December…
Expulsion of Another Bahá’í Student, This Time in Shiraz
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Ms. Nikouseresht told “Iranwire”: “After the end of the class on Wednesday, 28 December, I went to the university website to check my status, and I…
Iqan Shahidi Was Released from Rajai-Shahr Prison, After Five Years
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Iqan Shahidi, an activist for education rights, was released from Rajai-Shahr Prison on 1 January 2017, after completing his sentence. On 2 March 2010, Shahidi and several education and…