Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in Europe and North America (IHRAG) reports that on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Center of Human Rights Defenders in Tehran was raided by…
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Police Raid, Close Offices of Shirin Ebadi
Agence France Press (AFP) has just released the news that the Iranian authorities have closed down the offices of Nobel Laureate human rights defender Shirin Ebadi. TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian security forces have raided and…
A Book Review: The Baha’is of Iran
Editor’s note: The following is a book review by Oliver Scharbrodt, with the citation: Oliver Scharbrodt (2008); Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel; The Baha’is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, London and New York: Routledge,…
U.N. General Assembly expresses “deep concern” about human rights in Iran
By Baha’i World News Service 19 December 2007 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution expressing “deep concern” about “ongoing systematic violations of human rights” in Iran. Adopted by a…
Response from US Senator Barbara Boxer on Discrimination of Baha’is in Iran
By: Birch Bricker This post is in response to the former post I did on “Discrimination of minorities in Iran” [see http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2008/12/discrimination-of-minorities-in-iran/]. I wrote to Boxer, Fienstien, & Biden & I’ve been holding on to…
Concern raised over detention of Baha'is in Mazandaran
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran recently released a statement in which it expressed concern over the detention of 3 Baha’is in the Iranian province of Mazandaran on November, and urged the international…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By Mehrangiz Kar Sixty years have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved. The declaration is the beginning of a new broad global initiative. Extensive research and constructive debates have been raged…
Request for Iran Human Rights Commission
The following is a translation of the request of a group of Iranian human rights activist organizations on the occasion of December the 10th, International Human Rights Day, including a short report on the human…
Open Letter by Prominent Figures
Prominent figures from the worlds of education, law, human rights, religion and journalism have today published an open letter expressing grave concern at the Iranian government’s denial of access to education to members of the…
Baha’i Students’ Open Letter on Student Day
In the charged atmosphere after the CIA-supported military coup of August 1953 which brought Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi back to the throne and suppressed a popular uprising in support of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, university students in Iran…
Radicalism and Contempt
By Shirin Ebadi Values such as human rights are international standards that apply to all cultures and religions across national boundaries. For this reason, it is meaningless to speak of eastern or western, or, Islamic…
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Releases Report: “A Crime Against Humanity: The Islamic Republic’s Attacks on the Bahá’ís”
(New Haven, Connecticut, December 1, 2008) This new report from the IHRDC examines the Islamic Republic’s persecution of its Bahá’í citizens since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The report complements two earlier publications, A Faith…
International: A Brief Look at Iran's Bahá'í Religious Minority
By James Gilman for Mcgill Since 1979 revolution, persecution of progressive faith has intensified The Bahá’í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded in mid-nineteenth century Persia (present-day Iran) by Mirza Hoseyn Ali Nuri, also known…
Iranian Press Targets Nobel Prize Winner Ebadi
By James Gilman for Mcgill McGill University has been at the centre of a number of allegations made by the official media of the Islamic Republic of Iran this year. The Islamic Republic News Agency,…
Letter of Mrs. Moslemi to Iran's Judiciary
Translated by Ahang Rabbani The wife of Anvar Moslemi, who is a member of the Baha’i community of the province of Mazandaran, has written a letter to the Court that has jurisdiction over her husband’s…
Iranian Baha'i told "Your Education has been Terminated"
by Barney Leith Like thousands of other hopeful young Iranians Ameed Saadat sat Iran’s 2008 national university entrance examination. He passed was accepted to study hotel management at Goldasht College in Kelardasht, Mazandaran, and began…
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