Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report by BahaiNews, Fariba Ashtari, a Bahá’í citizen residing in Yazd, has been released from Yazd Prison, after serving her sentence. According to BahaiNews, this Bahá’í…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
Ruhiyyih Zainali, a Baha’i Citizen, Arrested After Being Summoned to the Offce of Information
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch BahaiNews has reported the 3 January 2017 arrest of Ruhiyyih Zainali, a Baha’i citizen and resident of Kerman.2 On 10 December 2016, security offcers arrested her Baha’i spouse. This…
Baha’i Citizen Murdered and Burned in Semnan
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch News sources close to the Baha’is in Iran have reported the 7 January 2017 killing and burning of a Baha’i, Ahmad Fanaian, in the desert in Semnan province.…
Studying at the Bahai Secret University
Source: www.bbc.com By Lipika PelhamNew York The largest non-Muslim minority in Iran, the Bahais, are persecuted in many ways – one being that they are forbidden from attending university. Some study in secret, but for those…
Expulsion of a Baha’i Couple from Payame-Noor University in Yazd Province
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by BahaiNews, a young Baha’i couple ‒ Azadeh Zolfaghari and Masoud Ghadirzadeh ‒ were expelled from university, owing to their belief in the Baha’i Faith. Based…
Baha’i Couple Arrested in Kerman
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports from BahaiNews yesterday morning, on 21 December 2016 security officers from the Office of Intelligence arrested Amrollah Khaleghian and his wife, Fariba Rohani, and searched…
Baha’i Citizen Sohail Keshavarz Arrested in Qazvin
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report from the Human Rights in Iran website, quoting BahaiNews1, on Dec 20 2016, security forces in Qazvin raided the home of a Baha’i resident of…
Expulsion of Baha’i Farinaz Mokhtari from Birjand University
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Farinaz Mokhtari, a Baha’i resident of Birjand, has been expelled from Birjand Women’s Technical & Vocational College because of her belief in the Baha’i Faith.…
Dr. King’s Dream and a Prisoner in Baghdad 150 Years Ago
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Homa Sabet Tavangar1 In anticipation of the Martin Luther King holiday, I wanted to show my daughters the St. Francis College Bulletin of 1976 that featured a photo of my mother studying with her…
Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: www.iranhrdc.org (July 30, 2014) – IHRDC’s latest 50-page report, Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran, details the jurisprudential as well as the legal context in which apostasy cases are prosecuted in the Islamic…
Suspicious Killing of Baha’i in Iran
Source: news.bahai.org NEW YORK — The Baha’i International Community has learned about the killing of a Baha’i in Iran, under suspicious circumstances. A report received on 9 January indicated that Ahmad Fanaian was found dead, having…
Non-Persian Iran
Source: www.jewishpolicycenter.org Kenneth R. Timmerman • Winter 2017 When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,” terrorists and turbans, evil-looking beards and missiles rising from bright, arid canyons. If they think further, some…
Azita Rafizadeh’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: The Concurrence of My Husband’s and My Imprisonment Will Harm My Child
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Azita Rafizadeh, an imprisoned Baha’i in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, wrote an open letter to Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani in which she raised the concurrence…
Maryam Bashir and Borhan Ismaili Arrested in Borazjan, Bushehr
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Security agents of the Ministry of Intelligence arrested Maryam Bashir and Borhan Ismaili, two Baha’i residents of Borazjan in Busher province, yesterday morning, Jan 2 2017. According to Human…
Mahbod Ettehadi, 23, Resident of Yazd, Arrested on 1 January 2017
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Human Rights in Iran website, citing Bahianews, security agents arrested Mahbod, and his whereabouts is still unknown. Some sources speculate that he might be held in…
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