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Iranian State Attacks Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education
A Bahá’í World News Service report describes the latest wave of a concentrated effort to restrict the Bahá’í Faith. Iranian officials have raided 30 Bahá’í homes and arrested up to 16 leaders of the...
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Wave of International Response in Light of Third Anniversary of the Arrest of...
The third anniversary of the arrest of seven leaders of the Baha’i faith came amid news of three new arrests of Baha’i citizens and the expulsion of two Bahai’i students from Qeshm University. In light...
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Two Mothers and Their Infants in Iranian Prisons Threatened by Lack of...
Semnana Prison, Iran - Zahra Nik-A’in and Taraneh Torabi are Baha’i women who have been sentenced to 20 and 23 months of prison respectively despite being mothers to small infants. Nak-A’in’s infant...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of May 13th, 2013
The anniversary of the arrest of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran is on May 14th. As the day approaches, members of the Baha’i community are remembering the seven leaders and renewing the call the release...
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Interactive Guide to “Iran’s Prisoners of Conscience”
The Guardian posted up a very thorough and expansive interactive guide on Iran’s prisoners of conscience — many of whom are Baha’i. The guide logs 870 activists, lawyers, politicians, artists and...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of June 3rd, 2013
News Seventy Seven guilty verdicts issued by appeals courts (HRIRAN – May 29th) In the past year, the appeals courts has issued 77 guilty verdicts, many of those cases involving Baha’i citizens....
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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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Nazanin Boniadi: What is the future of human rights under Hassan Rouhani?
Nazanin Boniadi, a British-Iranian actress and spokesperson for Amnesty International, published a short piece on the Human Rights Now blog on president-elect Hassan Rouhani and how he can prove his...
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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of July 3rd, 2013
News Ramin Aidalkhani transferred to Meshginshahr prison (Sen’s Daily – June 25th) Ramin Aidalkhani, a Baha’i who is serving a two-year sentence on charges of propaganda against the regime and...
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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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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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Baha’i Rights Media Round-Up: Week of June 8th, 2013
News Guilty Verdict in the Murder of John Veira in Suriname (Sen’s Daily – July 4th) The family of John Veira, a Baha’i from the Republic of Suriname, finally receive closure following the conviction...
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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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A Trio of Arrests In Iran
Iranian human rights organization HRANA reports a small wave of arrests in Iran this week. On Monday, Nura Samitra Fallah, a Baha’i from Shiraz, was summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence and...
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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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