Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – A large number of Bahá’í-owned businesses in the Sistan and Baluchistan provinces have been sealed by agents of the Office of Buildings and Public Places.…
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Bahais Mark 200th Birthday of Their Messenger, Whose Focus on Equality Resonates Today
Source: www.washingtonpost.com By Julie Zauzmer The Bahai faith is one of the youngest world religions — on Sunday, it will celebrate the birthday of its messenger, Baha’u’llah, who was born just 200 years ago. But to the…
Baha’i Students Deprived of Higher Education
Editor’s Note: Upon its founding over 30 years ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted a policy of barring Baha’i students from universities and all institutions of higher education. Occasionally, a few Baha’is have been…
Updates from BWNS
The following updates were provided by the Persian page of Baha’i World News Service on September 22, 2009, and appear below in translation: Babol (bwns1) Mr. Moshfeq Samandari, who was arrested on April 14, 2009,…
Ordeal of a Baha’i Family
Editor’s Note: The following essay by Amil Imani, who is not affiliated with the Baha’i community, was posted on the PDMI site and is reposted here for the information of readers of Iran Press Watch. …
Shiva Nazarahari is released
The following news was posted on the online site of Human Rights Activists News Agency on Wednesday, September 23, 2009: A few minutes ago, Shiva Nazarahari, a human rights activist was released from incarceration in…
Burial of Deceased Baha’i Prevented
The following report was posted on the online site of Human Rights Activists News Agency on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, and appears below in translation: Responsible authorities have created illegal obstacles to the burial of…
“Crime” of being a Baha’i is paid in jail
Editor’s Note: Publico (www.publico.pt) is considered the most influential daily newspaper in Portugal. Last week, its Foreign Desk senior reporter, Margarida Santos Lopes, interviewed Mr. Iraj Kamalabadi, the brother of imprisoned Fariba Kamalabadi, regarding the…
Baha’is, Superstitionism and the Iranian Identity (Part 1)
By Aram Anahid Until recently, whenever the word “Baha’i” was mentioned in Iran it was simply to reinforce the claim that the members of the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority were foreign agents. During the…
Anti-Baha’i Graffiti
The Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights reported the following on September 19, 2009: A recent visitor in Ardestan, Isfahan province, took these photographs that show insulting graffiti sprayed on Baha’i houses. These messages were written…
Updates from BWNS
The following updates were provided by the Persian page of Baha’i World News Service on September 16, 2009, and appear below in translation: Kashan (bwns1) Baha’is Summoned for Interrogations On August 19, 2009, Mr.…
Swelling Chorus in Support of Iranian Baha'is
Editor’s Note: A series of gatherings is organized across the United States in support of the Baha’is of Iran and in preparation for the October 18 trial of the seven former Baha’i leaders of that…
Two Baha’is Imprisoned
The following news was reported by the online site of Human Rights Activists News Agency on Thursday, September 17, 2009, and appears below in translation: Two Baha’is residents in the province of Mazandaran were tried…
When Baha'is are free, then all Iranians will be
Editor’s Note: Prof Hamid Dabashi is the author of Iran: A People Interrupted. He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. The following commentary appeared on…
We will celebrate the end of religious despotism
Editor’s Note: Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush is one of the most prominent Iranian political philosophers, intellectuals, religious scholars and writers. He is a former professor at the University of Tehran (bio). Last Wednesday, he published an…
4 Baha’i Prisoners Released
The online site of Khabar Navard has reported the following on Friday, September 11, 2009, which appears below in translation: Mrs. Didar Hashemi, Mrs. Vesal Yusufi and Payam Yusufi were released from prison in Sari…
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