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Human Rights Watch Issues a Statement on the Violation of Baha’i Rights in Iran
Human Rights Watch has issued a statement about the ongoing persecution of Baha’is in Iran, following the arrest of 13 Baha’is in Iran for alleged connection the Ashoura protests (January 27, 2009)....
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Open Letter to Iranians by Baha’i Students Banned from Universities
An open letter by a group of Baha’i students banned from universities to Iranians Noble people of Iran, We do not see the need to tell you of our love for Iran and Iranians. Anyone who has contact with...
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Baha’i Rights in Iran: A Struggle Fought in Hearts
Below is a powerful article posted on Iranian.com that talks about the persecution of Baha’is in Iran as a strategy of the Iranian regime to pit one group against the other. The writer contends the...
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New Baha’i Rights Illustration!
We’re proud to present to you a new Baha’i rights illustration that aims to highlight some of the human rights abuses Baha’is are subjected to in the Middle East: arson, unjustified incarceration and...
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Iran Sentences Baha’i Leaders to 20 Years in Prison
After prolonged detention and a show trial, the seven unofficial leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran were sentenced to 20 years in prison each, according to reports by human rights activists in...
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Gold merchants and Iran’s self-reinforcing anti-Bahaism
Every week there are one or two anti-Bahai stories that circulate in the officially sanctioned media in Iran: they are usually transparent fabrications. Sometimes I report one which reaches the media...
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The Importance of Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Baha’is in Iran
Below is a great op-ed that appeared in a Malaysian newspaper about the prolonged persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran. The writer, a Malaysian Baha’i, points out that the persecution of Baha’is...
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Supreme Leader’s adviser Larijani: Iranian regime protects people against the...
Mohammad Javad Larijani, a senior adviser to the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenai and head of the human rights council in the judiciary recently sat down for an interview with Iran Press TV, an...
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Iran: Four Baha’is arrested in November in Nour
Over the past month sources from Iran have reported about the arrest of four Baha’is, residents of the northern city Nour, and raids on three homes in the town. The first raid took place on the evening...
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Wave of Arson Attacks against Baha’i Businesses in Rafsanjan, Iran
In the last two months there have been nine reported cases of arson targeting Baha’i businesses in Rafsanjan, Iran. Reports coming from human rights activists in Iran indicate that during November and...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of June 10th, 2013
News Adnan Rahmat-Penah remains in limbo (Sen’s Daily – June 2nd) In the past six months, as Rahmat-Penah, a Baha’i from Shiraz, has been waiting in`Adel-Abad prison, the date for his sentencing trial...
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Prisoners In Profile: Azizollah Samandari, BIHE Teacher
Last week, Aziz Samandari, a 40-year old professor from Tehran, was awarded the Supreme Commitment Award by New Zealand’s Parliament, an honor recognizing his work in technology and higher education....
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Prisoners In Profile: Noura Nabilzadeh, Children’s Rights Activist
On a hot summer day in June, Noura Nabilzadeh, an Iranian children’s rights activist, and a group of her friends visited an orphaniage in Mashad to entertain and teach the children staying there with...
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Histories of Persecution: Remembering The Execution of the Báb
Today, members of the Baha’i faith all around the world will be remembering the execution of the Báb in in 1850s Persia. Considered a forerunner to the Baha’i faith, the Báb (originally born as Siyyid...
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Prisoners in Profile: Navid Khanjani, Journalist & Human Rights Activist
On January 30, 2011, the Iranian judicial courts handed out one of the harshest prison sentences to a human rights activist ever given: Navid Khanjani, a Baha’i journalist, was sentenced to 12 years in...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of July 29th, 2013
News Zhinous Rahimi begins 1-year sentence (Sen’s Daily – July 27th) A Baha’i from Tehran, Zhinous Rahimi, surrendered herself at Evin Prison last week to begin serving her one-year sentence. Rahimi...
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Khamenei Urges Iranians To Avoid Baha’is in New Edict
Only days before Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani is slated to take his elected position, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued yet another edict against Iranians of the Baha’i faith, according to...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of August 6th
News Political prisoner: 110 Baha’i detainees in various parts of Iran (Iran Daily Brief – Jul 29th) Bahman Ahmadi-Amu’i, a journalist and political prisoner serving his sentence Raja’i Shahr Prison,...
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Ataollah Rezvani Reportedly Killed in Southern Iran
Radio Zamaneh is reporting that Ataollah Rezvani, a 52-year Baha’i and social activist from Iran, was killed in the port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday. After being kidnapped, he was found shot in...
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Political Prisoners Pen Letter Demanding Justice for Ataollah Rezvani
Around 48 political prisoners incarcerated in Raja’i Shahr Prison released a letter this week demanding an investigation into the death of Ataollah Rezvani and prosecution of his killers. Rezvani, a...
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