Monday, 19 January 2009 Editor’s Note: Given the increasingly difficult situation of Baha’is in Iran, and an increase in the number of arrests, searches and destruction of Baha’i cemeteries, and also the fact that Baha’i…
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Regime Disregards People's Rights
Fall Report by the Center for Defenders of Human Rights – 2009.01.14 Arash Motamed Editor’s Note: The following article appeared at Rooz online and is reposted here due to its importance for our readers’ information.…
'Ashura Ceremonies and the Baha’is
By Akhtar Arjmandi Translated by Omid Ghaemmaghami [Translator’s Note: Akhtar Arjmandi maintains a blog dedicated to the defense of Iran’s Baha’i Community where she refutes attacks made against Baha’is in the Iranian press and in…
Iran Shuts Office of Nobel Winner's Rights Group
By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer Iranian authorities shut down the office of a human rights group led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Sunday as the group was preparing to honor a…
US Department of State on UN General Assembly calls on Iran to meet Human Rights obligations
The following is the text of the Press Statement published by Sean McCormack, Spokesman for the US Department of State in Washington, DC, and dated December 19, 2008: The United States welcomes UN General Assembly…
Fired from Work for Being Baha'i
Human Rights Activists of Iran has published the following letter of a Baha’i employed by Iran National Broadcasting Agency (which is a state-run public broadcasting and presently is known as Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting,…
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…
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…
Two Baha’is Arrested in Sari
Translated by Ahang Rabbani Recently security agents of the Islamic Republic arrested two Baha’is from Sari — their names are Sonya Tebyanian and Tarazallah Allah-Vardi Gurji. Some days ago, ranking authorities of the Islamic Republic’s…
New Threats Against the Baha’is of Iran
[The following report was filed by Hasan Zerehi, who is the editor-in-chief of Shahrvand, a Persian weekly published in Toronto, Canada. This essay (report no. 1197) was posted on Wednesday, 1 October 2008: http://fa.shahrvand.com/. It…
Redeem a Shameful History by Defending our Baha’i Countrymen!
by Behrouz Setoodeh [Setoodeh is a former prominent political activist and often writes informed political essays for Iranglobal website. This article was posted at http://www.jamali.info/minorities/?page=170508_A1 and extracts from it are translated below. Mr. Setoodeh is…
We are all Iranian Baha'is
By Ali Keshtgar [On Friday, 15 August 2008, the online journal Gooya News published the following analysis by the non-Baha’i Iranian journalist, Ali Keshtgar. The original Persian text may be accessed at: http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/08/075377.php Ahang Rabbani,…
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