Source: www.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iranian activists have urged the media and campaigners to pay more attention to human rights violations against Baha’is in provincial areas of Iran, claiming that they give unequal weight to violations taking…
Monthly Archives For March 2019
22 Baha’is Began New Year in Prison
Source: www.iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kian Sabeti The last month of the Persian year 1397 (corresponding to 2018-2019 in the Gregorian calendar) was an eventful month for Baha’i prisoners. On one hand, some of…
Arrest of the Third Member of a Baha’i Family in Tehran
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists organizing committee in Iran, on Monday, March 11, 2019, Saeed Naseri, a Baha’i citizen residing…
BIC Joins Expressions of Concern for Recent Sentence of Nasrin Sotoudeh
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA —19 March 2019 The Baha’i International Community joins the international community in expressing deep concern over the sentence leveled against Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer imprisoned in Iran. Ms. Sotoudeh was…
Incarceration, Unemployment and Expulsion from University, All for Being Baha’i
Source: www.iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kian Sabeti They were prevented from visiting each other for five months. Foujan is 20 years old and Milad 31 years old. They were both arrested for being Baha’is…
Hamid Nasseri, a Baha’i in Tehran, Arrested
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA news agency – Today, Hamid Naseri, a Baha’i living in Tehran, was arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location. It is said that the agents…
BIC Representative Delivers Statement on Situation of Baha’is in Iran at UN Human Rights Council
Source: www.bic.org Diane Alai, Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations in Geneva delivers a statement on the human rights situation of the Baha’is in Iran- the largest non-Muslim minority in the country-…
Baha’i Pouya Tebyanian Released from Semnan Prison After Six Years
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Pouya Tebyanian, a Baha‘i citizen imprisoned in Semnan Prison, has been released. He had been sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment in 2012…
Report on the Latest Situation of Baha’i Atousa Ahmadayi at Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The lack of accountability of judicial-security institutions has led to a cloud of uncertainty around the fate of Atousa Ahmadayi, a Baha’i citizen detained in…
Baha’i Ghazaleh Bagheri Tari Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Ghazaleh Bagheri Tari, a Baha’i citizen residing in Tehran, was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment; the decision was announced to her this week. Ms. Bagheri…
Baha’i Prisoners Pardoned or Released Early
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch On the eve of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on February 11, 2019, a number of individuals convicted by Iranian courts were pardoned or had their sentences reduced. …