Source: news.bahai.org UNITED NATIONS — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly today condemned Iran for its continuing violations of human rights, the 30th such resolution since 1985. By a vote of 83 to 30 with…
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Religious Discrimination Explicit in Iran’s Penal Code
Source: news.bahai.org 25 July 2017 BIC NEW YORK — A court in Yazd has recently sentenced a man convicted of the public murder of a Baha’i to just 11 years in prison and two years away from…
Iranian Nobel Laureate Blasts Khamenei’s “Fire at Will” Policy Against Domestic Opponents
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recent declaration that security forces should “fire at will” against presumed enemies of the state is an established policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi…
Extensive Distribution of Anti-Baha’i Pamphlets in Mazandaran Province
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – In a concerted effort to spread false information and incite hatred and violence against members of the Baha’i Faith, the Headquarter of Coordination and Monitoring of Mosques…
They Confessed to Killing a Baha’i, but Were Freed
Source: iranwire.com By ARASH AZIZI The confession came pure and simple from one of two brothers who, in September 2016, stabbed a man to death in the Iranian city of Yazd. Murderers don’t usually confess to their crimes.…
Murderers of a Baha’i Released on Bail
Source: www.bic.org GENVEVA—13 June 2017—The two murderers of Mr. Farhang Amiri, a Baha’i who was stabbed to death in September 2016 in Iran, have been released on bail after having confessed to killing him because of…
Extrajudicial Killings Supported by Law and Islamic Jurisprudence
Source: www.ihrr.org By Kamyar Behrang Perhaps when Mirza Mohammad Reza Kermani shot the Qajar king, Naser al-Din Shah, on 30 April 1896, Iran’s contemporary history entered a different era. Mirza Reza Kermani was first attracted to the…
A Paradise for Murderers
Source: news.gooya.com By Bijan Masumian Translation by Iran Press Watch The root of the repression and murder of religious minorities in Iran can be traced back to the spread of religious hatred by Muslim extremists who…
Murder of a Baha’i in Yazd and Inquiry About the Rights of Baha’is
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
“We Killed a Baha’i to Buy us Paradise for Seven Generations”
Source: www.iranwire.com When the doorbell rang, his elderly mother, who lives on the floor below, pushed the button to open the door without asking any questions. She assumed that a friend or a relative had come…
Farhang Amiri, Murdered September 28, 2016 in Yazd, Designated a Martyr by Universal House of Justice
Source: www.goldnews.biz Translation by Iran Press Watch Gold News reported that Mr. Farhang Amiri, a Baha’i citizen of Yazd murdered on September 28, 2016 in Yazd has been designated a martyr by the Universal House of…
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