Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti An Iranian Baha’i is part of the team behind Google’s newly-announced “discovery of the millennium” — the world’s first quantum computer. On 22 October, Google researchers announced that a computation that…
Monthly Archives For October 2019
Fresh Crackdown on the Baha’is of Shiraz
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Intelligence agents raided the homes of 10 Baha’is on the morning of October 21, and arrested three of them. According to a report sent to IranWire, the raids took place simultaneously in Shiraz…
Azita Rafizadeh, a Baha’i Citizen, Has Been Released from Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRA News Agency (HRANA) – Azita Rafizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, was released from Evin Prison today after completing her sentence. She was arrested by security forces in November 2015…
Three Baha’is Were Arrested in Shiraz
Source: www.en-hrana.org On October 21, 2019, three Baha’i citizens were arrested in Shiraz while their houses and several other Baha’i houses were searched and their personal belongings such as laptops, cell phones, and computers were confiscated.…
Imminent Ruling in Yemen Could Expand Sentence Against Entire Religious Community
Source: Baha’i International Community GENEVA—21 October 2019—On Tuesday, 22 October 2019, an appeals court in Sana’a, Yemen is expected to pronounce its ruling to uphold a verdict issued in January 2018 to dissolve Baha’i institutions…
Iran Policy Brief: Increased Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i Community in 2019
Source: www.uscirf.gov By Scott Weiner, Policy Analyst Background The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic authoritarian state that enforces a unique interpretation of Ja’afri Shi’a Islam. Individual Iranians, however, ascribe to a wide range of…
A Journey to Religious Freedom and Education
Source: www.icmc.net Geneva, 1 October 2019 – Imagine having to pack a few of your most precious belongings in haste before fleeing overnight across international borders. Holakou Rahmanian, a former Iranian refugee now resettled in the United…
Three Baha’is Were Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment
Source: www.en-hrana.org Three Baha’i residents of Abadan and Ahvaz, Neda Sabeti (Azadi), Forough Farzaneh, and Noushin Afshar were each sentenced to a one-year prison term for the charge of “propaganda against the state” by the Revolutionary…
Baha’i Children Are Left with Their Fears
Source: iranwire.com Mehrangiz Kar Translation by Iran Press Watch The horrible events of recent days in Iran are so fastidiously attacking our minds and souls that it makes us ruthlessly welcome the news of a new…
Trials of Sixty-Five Baha’is in Six Months
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch “The Appeals Court upheld my original sentence and that of five other Baha’is in absentia. The lawyer has asked us not to report this publicly for now. He…
Detention, Home Search, and Sealing of Abbas Taef’s Baha’i-Owned Business
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abbas Taef, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was detained on Friday by agents of the Office of Intelligence and taken to an unknown location. Officers…
Many Baha’i Homes Searched, Some Arrested in Tehran and Karaj
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Increasing Pressure on the Baha’i Community HRANA- Yesterday, in a coordinated effort, the homes of many Baha’is were searched by security officers in Tehran and Karaj. In addition to…
In Iran, Religious Minority Children Are To Stay Silent If They Want To Study
Source: www.forbes.com Ewelina U. Ochab In early September 2019, Iranian news reported that the Iranian Minister for Education had ruled that if students mention that they belong to an officially unrecognized religion, like the Baha’i faith, this can…
Proposed Bill “Penalization of the Perverse Sects”: The Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Leap to Legalize Investigation of Beliefs
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Moin Khazaeli The news is short and shocking: Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly intends to review a bill, by virtue of which, if passed, the “investigation of beliefs” in its true sense will be legalized,…
Isfahan Prison: Repeat Interrogation of Baha’i Farhang Sahba by IRGC’s Intelligence Unit
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Farhang Sahba, a Baha’i citizen held in Isfahan prison, was recently transferred to Isfahan IRGC Intelligence Unit for questioning. His transfer came at a time…
Forgotten Discrimination in Iranian President’s Speech
Source: www.iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Announcing the results of the Nationwide University Entrance Examination, as in previous years, Baha’i applicants were put off with “Incomplete Records”. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began…
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