Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Three Baha’is living in Shiraz, Mahboub Habibi, Pejman Shahriari and Kourosh Rohani, were sentenced to one year in prison by the First Branch of the…
Monthly Archives For January 2019
Shirin Bani Nejad, Baha’i Student, Expelled from University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shirin Bani Nejad, a full-time fifth-semester undergraduate student in computer science at Sama Andisheh Azad University, was barred from continuing her studies because she is…
Shayan Manavi, Baha’i Student, Expelled from University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shayan Manavi, a third semester student in civil engineering at Islamic Azad University in the City of Qods, was expelled from the university and…
Appeals Court of Yazd Province Sentences Two Baha’is to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 11 of the Court of Appeals in Yazd Province has sentenced two Baha’i citizens of that city, Mehran Bandi Amirabadi and Mehran Islami Amirabadi,…
Deputy Chairman of Parliament Criticizes Institutions for Interfering with the Work of Parliament, Denying Education to Baha’is and Closing their Businesses
Source: magiran.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Editor’s note: Baha’is are faced with many forms of persecution, including denial of higher education and closure of businesses, which are rooted in a secret 1991 memorandum of the…
Human Rights Violations in Iran: Four Baha’i Citizens in Isfahan Sentenced to Combined 10 Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Last May, Branch 23 of the Appeals Court of Isfahan Province upheld the sentencing of four Baha’i citizens for combined total of 10 years imprisonment. …
Bahá’í-Owned Business Sealed by Authorities in Birjand
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On the morning of Saturday 5 January 2019, the business of Farshid Deimi, a Bahá’í citizen of Birjand, was sealed by order of judiciary officials.…
Badi Safajou, a Seventh-Semester Chemical Engineering Student, Expelled from University for Being Baha’i
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch c, a Baha’i residing in Karaj, and a seventh-semester student of chemical engineering at the Research and Sciences School of the Islamic Azad University, was expelled from the university…
Court of Appeals: Teaching Baha’i Faith Not Propaganda Against the Regime; Liza Tebyanian Acquitted
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 12 of the Alborz Province Court of Appeals dismissed the charges brought against Liza Tebyanian in the lower court and ordered the acquittal of…
Note of Saeed Dehghan, Lawyer for Baha’i Citizens in Isfahan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watcg HRANA News Agency – Four Baha’i residents of Isfahan were sentenced in May this year by the appeals court of Isfahan province to 10 years imprisonment. These citizens were arrested on Saturday by security…
Mounting Pressure on Baha’i Community, Interrogation of 32 Baha’is by Information Office in Karaj
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News – During last two weeks, at least 32 Baha’i citizens were summoned and interrogated under common documentation collectively by the Information Office in Karaj. Previously, the same…
Baha’i Citizen Arrested in Yazd by Security Forces
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today, Moein Mohammadi, a Baha’i living in Yazd, was arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location. It is said that he was…
Top Student Expelled for Being Baha’i
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News- Sama Zazifi, a student majoring in architecture at the University of Shahriar, was expelled for being a Baha’i. Despite depriving Baha’is from attending universities by the…
Persecution of Baha’is Continues With 60 Arrests and Interrogations
Source: iranwire.com By KIAN SABETI Over the last few weeks, more than 60 Baha’is have been arrested and interrogated in cities across Iran, and four more were detained so that they could start serving prison sentences handed…
Sabotage in Providing a University Degree to a Baha’i Student with a History of Captivity and Injury During the War
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Behrouz Farzandi, a Baha’i residing in Shiraz, who was imprisoned for more than 2 years during the war and was 25% injured[i], after more than…
Baha’i Detainee Denied Medical Treatment in Shiraz Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency: Hassan Momtaz Sarvestani, a Baha’i citizen detained at Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, has been prevented from hospitalization despite his acute heart problems. Today is…