Source: shahrvand-yar.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ghodsieh Ashraf, an Iranian Baha’i citizen and one of the first Iranian women to graduate from a United States University, spent her life in serving in the fields…
Monthly Archives For June 2018
Narrative of an Execution: 17-Year-Old Mona
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On Saturday, June 18, 1983, an hour after the weekly women’s visitation at the Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, Mona Mahmudinejad and nine other Baha’i women…
Interrogator: Of Course You Will Not Be Admitted to University, Because You are Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On May 22, 2011, in a coordinated and simultaneous operation, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence raided the homes of 39 Baha’i citizens connected with the Baha’i Institute for…
Soheil Keshavarz, Baha’i Citizen, Begins Prison Sentence
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA, the Human Rights Activists’ News Agency in Iran, Soheil Keshavarz, a Baha’i citizen residing in Qazvin, has been taken to the Qazvin Prison to begin serving…
Soha Izadi, Baha’i Student, Expelled from University of Zanjan
Source: persian.iranhumanrights.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Soha Izadi was admitted to the University of Zanjan in March 2018, but has been expelled for her belief in the Baha’i Faith. She was an Informatics Engineering major.…
Baha’is in Sorkhroud Mazandaran Barred from Buying or Selling Land
Source: shahrvand-yar.com Translation by Iran Press Watch It may be hard to imagine such an act of apartheid: In an official letter to all real estate agents, the mayor of a city issued an order…
The Case of Babak Beheshti: Deprived of Education, Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Teaching Baha’i Students
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch “Babak Beheshti Vadeghan” was among several Baha’i citizens whose homes were targeted in a coordinated series of raids on May 22, 2011, by security forces of…
An Autopsy of the Persecution of the Dead in Contemporary Iran – From the Bab to Khavaran
Source: BBC Persian By: Mehrdad Amanat, Historical Researcher Translation by Iran Press Watch In an article for the Op-Ed page, in reference to recently published reports of the destruction of mass graves, historian Mehrdad Amanat looks…
Iran’s allies are preparing a genocide in Yemen. But there’s still time to stop it
Source: nationalpost.com Opinion: Baha’is have been brutally oppressed in Iran; now Yemeni rebels directed by Tehran have embraced that brutal campaign By Kyle Matthews In the midst of a devastating civil war in Yemen, the Iranian-backed…
Iran’s Pushback Against Education Goals
Source: iranwire.com ARASH AZIZI Waves of repression and turmoil at home has made Iran a diasporic nation. In particular, since the 1979 revolution, millions have left their homeland in search of a better future elsewhere. One…
Expulsion of Shakib Teimouri, a Baha’i Student, from Gorgan University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shakib Teimouri, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Gorgan, was expelled from university for being a Baha’i, on the morning…
Confirmed by Court of Administrative Justice – Baha’is in Iran Are Not Entitled to University Education
Source: www.hra-news.org Date: May 29, 2018 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Mechanical engineering student Hannan Horr, a Baha’i citizen, has lost his appeal with the Court of Administrative Justice and is being…
Economic Repression of Baha’i Citizen in Maku, Shahin Dehghan
Source: www.hra-news.org Date: May 21, 2018 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency –Shahin Dehghan, a Baha’i citizen and resident of Maku, was summoned to the Intelligence Office in Maku on May 10, 2018 and…
Baha’i Citizen Arrested in Minudasht
Source: www.bazdasht.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Shahnam Zajbani, Baha’i citizen of Minudasht, Province of Golestan, has been arrested at his home, handcuffed and transferred to Gonbad Prison. According to the Bazdasht report, quoting HRANA News,…