Iran Press Watch is pleased to announce its second quarterly Summary Report for 2009. These reports cover arrests, incarcerations, and raids on homes; destruction of Bahá’í properties; denial of education; and deprivation of livelihood. Translations…
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100 Year Old Baha'i Cemetery is being Auctioned Off near Sari
The Baha’i Cemetery of near the Village of Eivel on the Kiasar-Sari road has been placed for auction, in order to be converted to residential property. This cemetery is more than 100 years old, and…
Vandals Desecrate the Baha’i Cemetery in Semnan
Semnan – On 19 February 2009, the Baha’i cemetery in Semnan became the victim of a growing wave of violence that has swept across Iran, desecrating Baha’i burial places and terrorizing Baha’i families. Fifty tombstones…
Iranian Authorities Destroy Sufi Holy Site In Isfahan
Editor’s Note: At Iran Press Watch, we were saddened to learn that authorities in Iran have destroyed a Holy Site of the Sufi Order in that country. We strongly denounce desecration of such sacred edifices and…
"My esteemed fellow countrymen and women"
Almost 30 years ago, Manousheed Bagha’s mother was executed for the sole purpose of being an adherent of the Baha’i Faith. Upon hearing that the cemetery of Khavaran, where her mother was buried, faces the…
Destroying Qaemshahr Cemetery – Again
(January 19, 2009) Yesterday around midnight a truck and a bulldozer accompanied by undercover agents stormed the Baha’i cemetery in Qaimshahr. They proceeded to fire shots in the air, and use the heavy equipment to…
Destruction of Baha’i Cemeteries: A Systematic Anti-Baha’i Campaign
By Vahid Mazahib [The Religious Group] Tuesday, 9 December 2008 Among the various problems confronting the Baha’is of Iran, one can point to the systematic destruction and desecration of their cemeteries as a significant element…
Second Attack on Darzikola Cemetery
Translated by Ahang Rabbani During the early hours of Friday, November 21, once again the Baha’i cemetery at Darzikola came under vicious attack by hired hooligans. Only the vigilant attention of the people of Darzikola…
Video of Darzikola’s Desecrated Baha’i Cemetery
[In the past two weeks, several times this site has reported on the destruction of the Baha’i Cemetery of Darzikola, a village near Qa’emshahr. On Monday, 3 November 2008, a video of the aftermath of…
Update on the Darzikola Cemetery
[On Sunday, 26 October 2008, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists of Iran published a short repot on the recent desecration of the Baha’i cemetery of Darizkola: http://hrairan.org/Archive_87/1140.html. This is a crime about which Iran…
Desecration of the Baha'i Cemetery of Darzikola [Updated]
Darzikola is a small town associated with Qa’im-Shahr (pop. 175,000 in 2006) in the province of Mazandaran, in the northern part of Iran. It is also near the larger towns of Babul and Sari (see…
More on the destruction of the Isfahan Cemetery (plus video)
[On Saturday, 18 October 2008, the following report was posted in Persian by the prestigious Human Rights Activists of Iran at http://www.hrairan.com/Archive_87/1123.html — it is shared below in translation. It should be noted that the…
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