From Shirzad Bozorgmehr Editor’s Note: CNN is reporting the arrest of Jinous Sobhani, a Baha’i in Tehran. She is the daughter of Riaz Sobhani whose home was raided yesterday, Wednesday, 14 Jan, by agents of…
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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.…
UN Secretary-General Concerned Over Threats Against Shirin Ebadi
The following report was posted on UN News Service: 3 January 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his great concern over reports that Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin…
Attacks on Home and Office of Shirin Ebadi
Editor’s Note: Though the wave of attacks on the office and home of Ms. Ebadi is not directly related to the Baha’i community, however as this unfortunate turn of event represents a clear violation of…
Defense of Human Rights Will Not Stop
By Maryam Kashani (Reporter for Rooz online) Following the closure of the offices of the Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Tehran by government agents, Rooz spoke with Narges Mohammadi, the spokesperson for…
Baha'is Call for Reopening of Human Rights Center in Iran
GENEVA, 23 December (BWNS)- The Baha’i International Community today expressed grave concern over the closing by the Iranian government of Shirin Ebadi’s Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran and called for its reopening. “The…
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…
Center of Human Rights Defenders in Tehran is under Raid
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Shirin Ebadi at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California
[On Tuesday, 14 October 2008, Mrs. Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate and renowned lawyer for human and civil rights, spoke at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. One of the kind Baha’i readers of…
The Cologne Proclamation
[On Monday, 22 September 2008, DW-World.DE, which is the online service of the prestigious Deutsche Welle network, reported the following news. This report is available at http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3663349,00.html and was filed by K. Ghahari. Ahang Rabbani,…
I am a Baha'i too!
by Khosro Shemiranie [Shemiranie was born in Iran, studied in Germany and lives in Canada. He is a freelance writer specializing in analytical articles on the socio-political issues of Iran and violations of human rights.…
If I were a Shiite
by Reza Fani [Reza Fani-Yazdi is an Iranian-American human rights activist and freelance writer who has published extensively on the plight of Iranians under the current regime. On 8 August 2008, he published the following…
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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