Source: www.iranintl.com Norway based Victim’s Families for Transitional Justice has written to Javaid Rehman, Iran’s UN human rights rapporteur, about rights breaches at Khavaran Cemetery, Tehran. The group has sent a letter to the Special Rapporteur…
Source: iranwire.com The United States has denounced the desecration of over 30 graves of the Baha’i religious minority in a Tehran cemetery, condemning the Islamic Republic’s persecution of the community. “We condemn the destruction of 30 graves…
Source: www.en-hrana.org In a ruling by the Tehran Revolutionary Court, Shadi Shahidzadeh, Mansour Amini, Valiollah Ghadamian, and Ataollah Zafar, four Baha’i citizens, have each been sentenced to five years in prison. Judge Iman Afshar, presiding…
Source: iranwire.com Four imprisoned members of the Baha’i religious minority in Iran have been subjected to coercive measures by interrogators, pressuring them to make confessions on camera, IranWire reports. The actions occurred during the trial of…
Source: iranwire.com Officials in Iran have buried another deceased Baha’i citizen without notifying the family or allowing for a Baha’i religious ceremony. The body of Maryam Moinipour, a 92-year-old Baha’i citizen who passed away in…
Source: iranwire.com The name of Khavaran, a cemetery southwest of Tehran, has long been associated with the criminal history of the Islamic Republic. Many victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, whose bodies were…
Source: www.bic.org Persian translation here GENEVA—3 April 2023—A brazen and barbaric act by the Iranian authorities has emerged in recent days in Tehran. A deceased Baha’i was buried on 30 March at Khavaran cemetery near Tehran…
Source: iranhumanrights.org The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this right to families who’ve lost loved ones from state oppression. Public mourning can expose and embarrass regimes…
Source: bbc.com Iranian authorities have ordered members of the minority Bahai religious community to bury their dead in a mass grave for political prisoners executed in 1988, BBC Persian has learned. Bahai families, as well…
Source: www.amnesty.org Iranian authorities are banning members of the persecuted Baha’i minority from burying their loved ones in empty plots at a cemetery near Tehran that they have used for decades, instead insisting they bury them…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have faced many forms of systematic discrimination and harassment over the past four decades, including deportation, educational restrictions, detention, harassment, torture, imprisonment and even execution. The burial of Baha’i…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 April 2021—Continuing Iran’s decades-long campaign of persecution of its Baha’i community from cradle to grave, the Iranian authorities have now banned the Baha’is of Tehran from burying their loved ones in a space…
Source: BBC Persian By: Mehrdad Amanat, Historical Researcher Translation by Iran Press Watch In an article for the Op-Ed page, in reference to recently published reports of the destruction of mass graves, historian Mehrdad Amanat looks…
Source: www.facebook.com By Shadi Sadri Translated by Iran Press Watch Bringing parallel lines together It is the academic year of 1995-1996. I am in my last year of studying law and preparing for my post graduate…
By Shahrzad Arshadi Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch is pleased to publish the following learned essay by one of its readers, Shahrzad Arshadi. This eloquent and informative essay was first disseminated on 11 February 2009…
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…
