Source: www.thewhig.com The voice of Coquitlam’s Soheila Talebi-Eskandari breaks as she describes how her brother and his wife in Iran, followers of the Baha’i faith, were arrested last month and had many family possessions seized —…
Monthly Archives For September 2020
Iran, Where National Security Means Confiscating a Girl’s Piano
Source: www.macleans.ca Fifteen-year-old Nawal Talebi saw her parents imprisoned and her beloved musical instrument carted off as Tehran steps up its persecution of minorities Maybe it was the piano. Maybe that explains it. Maybe it was…
Report on Maryam Laqaei and Mitra Forsatipour, Baha’i Citizens in Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Maryam Laghaei and Mitra Forsatipour, Baha’i citizens, have been serving their sentences in the women’s ward of Evin Prison since early August this year. Ms.…
Nine Baha’i Citizens Sentenced to a Total of Nine Years in Prison by Shahriar Revolutionary Court
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Kianoosh Salmanzadeh, Jamileh Pakroo, Peyman Manavi, Payam Shabani, Parvan Manavi, Elham Salmanzadeh, Hooman Khoshnam, Neda Shabani and Soroush Agahi, nine Baha’i citizens living in Karaj,…
Constructive Resilience: How an Oppressed Minority Manages to Thrive in Iran
Source: www.post-gazette.com AFRA AMID AND SANDRA LYNN HUTCHISON Barred from teaching or studying at state universities and subject to imprisonment and, in some cases, even execution for their beliefs, the Bahá’ís of Iran, a religious minority…
Iran Sentences 8 Bahai Citizens to 11 Years of Prison in Eastern Province
Source: irannewswire.org A court in Iran sentenced eight Bahai citizens to a total of 11 years and 3 months of prison in an eastern province. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the eight men and women have been…
U.S. Seeks to Deter Iranian Regime’s Religious Persecution
Source: share.america.gov The United States has imposed sanctions on senior Iranian officials responsible for continuing the regime’s long-standing persecution of religious minorities. Iran’s constitution states that it protects the equal rights of “all people of Iran.”…
Leading Iranian Rights Advocate Sotoudeh Marks 25th Day Of Hunger Strike In Prison
Source: www.rferl.org Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on a hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison for more than three weeks to protest the risk that political prisoners in Iran face amid the…
U.S. Secretary Recognizes 40th Anniversary of Arrest of National Spiritual Assembly of Baha’is of Iran
Source: Department of State Forty years ago this month the Iranian regime arrested nine members of the Baha’i National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, no one has heard from them since. Sadly we must conclude that these…
Iran Failing to Control Coronavirus Spread in Prisons: Rights Group
Source: www.arabnews.com PARIS: Iranian authorities are not taking the measures needed to limit the spread of coronavirus in its overcrowded prisons, including institutions where foreigners such as Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert are held, a rights group charged…