Source: www.youtube.com Arash Rod This is the story of persecution of three generations of Baha’is in Iran.
Monthly Archives For August 2020
Barred From Iran, Baha’i Scientist Takes a Quantum Leap With Google
Source: iranwire.com Arash Azizi Pedram Roshan has not lived in Iran for about 20 years. Memories of his country of birth are “fading,” every day, he says. But he vividly remembers the best definition of physics…
Iran’s Religious Minority Representatives: Surrender to Survive
Source: articleeighteen.com “Religious minorities in the Islamic Republic have no restrictions; they enjoy full freedom and all economic and social rights, and those who say otherwise are false claimants of ‘human rights’ who distort the facts.”…
Baha’i Groom Returned to Jail Three Days After His Wedding
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti He was born in the 1980s, in prison, because his mother was a Baha’i. He was denied a university education because he believed in a religion the rulers of Iran consider “forbidden”.…
Baha’i Couple Arrested in Villashahr, Isfahan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – A Baha’i couple living in Villashahr, Isfahan, have been taken into custody. Mojdeh Eghterafi and her husband, Hooshmand Talebi were arrested on Sunday, August 23rd,…
Farid Zirgi Moghaddam, Baha’i Citizen, Sentenced to Additional Year in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Farid Zirgi Moghaddam, a Baha’i citizen living in Birjand, was sentenced to one additional year in prison by the Birjand Criminal Court in the secondary…
Persecution of Baha’is in Iran Amid Pandemic
Source: WDRforyou We are going abroad again, to talk about a religious group that is not allowed to exist, at least in its country of origin. In Iran, adherents of the Baha’i Faith are deprived of…
Lawyer: Iranian Baha’i Woman Sent to Prison to Start Sentence for Practicing her Faith
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – An Iranian lawyer says a Baha’i woman he represents has become the latest member of the religious minority to begin serving a prison sentence for practicing her faith, deemed…
Baha’i Citizen Liza Tebyanian Arrested in Karaj, Alborz Province
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Liza Tebyanian, a Baha’i citizen living in Karaj, was arrested by security forces on the evening of Saturday, August 16, 2020, and taken to an…
#NoPrisonForBahais Campaign Decries Baha’is Jailed During Pandemic
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti A new social media campaign was launched recently regarding the Baha’is in Iran who, in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, have been arrested and jailed in a fresh wave of persecution…
Iran Sentences 10 Bahai Citizens to Prison for Following Banned Faith
Source: irannewswire.org Iranian courts in Tehran and its sister city of Karaj sentenced 10 Bahai men and women to prison for following the banned religion. The Human Rights News Agency reported yesterday that an appeal’s court in Tehran…
Senator Sharon Keogan Speaks up on Recent Upsurge in Persecution of Iran’s Baha’is
Source: www.youtube.com By Senator Sharon Keogan Some of you will know that the largest religious minority in Iran is the Baha’i faith and many of you around this country will know many Baha’is that live in…
A Baha’i Citizen, Elaheh Samizadeh, Sentenced to an Extra Year in Prison
Source: www.en-hrana.org Elaheh Samizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, has been sentenced to one extra year of imprisonment and two years suspension from holding all governmental and public jobs by Branch 105 of Shiraz Criminal Court. Ms. Samizadeh…
The Killing of a Zoroastrian Priest Highlights Religious Apartheid in Iran
Source: iranwire.com The murder of a Zoroastrian cleric in Kerman province in late July has sparked fresh debate over the rights of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic. In Iran, non-Muslims are not entitled to the same legal…