August 4, 2018. Soltani Granted Furlough to Mourn Daughter’s Death One of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Abdolfattah Soltani, was granted furlough from Evin Prison to mourn his daughter’s… ...
The Appeals Court in Iran’s Kurdistan Province has upheld a one-year prison sentence against Zabihollah Raoufi, who was accused of proselytizing his Baha’i faith. He has also been condemned to… ...
A young Baha’i woman was expelled from Iran’s Islamic Azad University in the city of Isfahan one semester before completing her bachelor’s degree in architecture because of her religious beliefs…. ...
Sepanta Niknam has reclaimed his city council seat in the city of Yazd, southeastern Iran, nine months after he was suspended by a local court because he’s a member of… ...
Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari Awaiting Appeal in Tehran Two years after being sentenced to long prison sentences without due process in Iran, Iranian American Karan Vafadari and his American… ...
Soha Izadi was expelled from a university in the Iranian city of Zanjan, 207 miles west of Tehran, in March 2018 because of her Baha’i faith, a source close to… ...
Payam Vali’s manufacturing business was shuttered in Iran in 2008 because of his religious beliefs. Payam Vali’s eyeglass lens manufacturing business in the Iranian city of Karaj was shuttered by… ...
a spate of arrests of Baha’i faith members in three Iranian provinces by agents of the Intelligence Ministry. “Baha’is have been arrested since the inception of the Islamic Republic. But… ...
State-funded publishers at Iran’s May 2018 Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) were permitted to offer dozens of books disparaging the Baha’i faith, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI)… ...
A young man has been expelled from the University of Gilan in northern Iran because of his Baha’i faith in another example of Iranian universities discriminating against students for their… ...
Afif Naeimi, the seventh and last imprisoned member of Baha’i leaders in Iran known as the Yaran , returned to Rajaee Shahr Prison near Tehran on April 23, 2018, at… ...
April 15, 2018 — Prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi was unable to accept the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize in person in Columbus, Ohio where the American Physical Society (APS) awarded… ...
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