Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – As reported by HRANA, the news agency for Human Rights Activists in Iran, the court hearing for the charges against Faruq Izadinia, scholar, translator and Baha’i citizen of Tehran, was…
Monthly Archives For February 2019
Baha’i Kasra Teifouri Begins Serving Prison Sentence in Isfahan; Hamed Rezvani’s Fate Unknown
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – As reported by HRANA, the news agency for Human Rights Activists in Iran, on December 17, 2018, Mohammad Reza (Kasra) Teifouri, a Baha’i in Isfahan,…
Report of Arrest of Baha’i Roya Hosseinzadeh in Gilan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News- Roya Hosseinzadeh, A Baha’i resident of Manjil in the province of Gilan, was arrested on February 2, 2019 by security forces at her residence and transferred to…
Continued Detention of Baha’i Maryam Ghaffarmanesh in Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Maryam Ghaffarmanesh, a Baha’i resident of Karaj, who was arrested by security forces on September 16th and taken to Evin Prison, is still in prison…
Baha’i Student Sepehr Shahidi Ghamsari Expelled from University
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Sepehr Shahidi Ghamsari, a Junior Civil Engineering student at Sina Higher Education Institute in Kashan, has been expelled from university and prevented from continuing his…
Forty Years of State Lies: RSF Unveils Leaked Iranian Justice File
Source: rsf.org No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed today on the basis of information in…
Two Yazd Baha’is Begin Serving Prison Sentences
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – As reported by HRNA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, on Saturday, February 3, 2019, Mehran Bandi Amirabadi and Mehran Eslami Amirabadi,…
Five Baha’is From Shiraz Sentenced to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 17 of the Fars Province Appeals Court sentenced five Baha’is from Shiraz to 30 months imprisonment. The citizens had previously been sentenced in absentia…
Bahai Farzad Rouhani Manshadi Arrested in Yazd
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Farzad Rouhani Manshadi, a Baha’i citizen living in Yazd, was detained by security forces today and transferred to an unknown location. The agents simultaneously searched…
How I Became a Baha’i
Source: mbamdadan.blogspot.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Mazdak Bamdadan – Recently, I was invited by the Iran Society in Frankfurt to give a talk about the Shahnameh of Firdawsi. After the talk and the conversation that…
Appeals Court; Soheil Haghdoost, Baha’I from Qaemshahr, Sentenced to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Branch 28 of the Mazandaran Provincial Appeals Court sentenced Soheil Haghdoost, a Baha’i from Qaemshahr, to four months’ of prison. On April 18, 2018, the…
Baha’i Atousa Ahmadayi Sent to Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – Atousa Ahamadayi (Khorrami), a Baha’i living in Tehran, who was arrested yesterday by security forces after a search of her house and confiscation of some personal belongings, was taken…