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BAHA’I RIGHTS MEDIA ROUND-UP: WEEK OF JUNE 15TH, 2013
News Leva Khanjani gets leave from prison (Sen’s Day – July 10th) On July 11th, Leva Khanjani, a Baha’i student who was banned from pursuing her education, was granted prison furlough and temporarily...
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Prisoners in Profile: Bashir Ehsani, Education Rights Activist
“For years, we as Baha’is have been deprived of the right to education as part of our everyday lives. It is as if our foreheads were all branded at birth with a stamp of discrimination. It has not...
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Iranian Filmaker Mohammad Nourizad Makes Headlines For Kissing Baha’i Boy’s Feet
This past week, Iranian filmaker, writer and dissident Mohammad Nourizad visited the home of a 4-year-old Baha’i boy named Artin and posted a photo of himself kissing the boy’s feet on his blog. Artin...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of July 22nd, 2013
News An Update on the Destruction of the House of Baha’u'llah in Baghdad from the Universal House of Justice (Messages from the Baha’i World Centre – July 17th) Few details have emerged on the...
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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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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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“Section 209″, a Short Film on Baha’i Prisoners in Iran
Section 209 from SECTION 209 on Vimeo. Farnaz, a Baha’i filmmaker from Australia, has released her short film on Baha’i prisoners in Iran, “Section 209″, online. The film, based on a true story,...
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