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Highlights of Global “Five Years Too Many” Campaign

On May 5, 2013, the Baha’i International Community launched an international campaign, entitled “Five Years Too Many,” to call for the immediate release of the Yaran-i-Iran (Friends of Iran), the seven...

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State Department Officials Highlight Plight of Baha’is in Iran

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of State released the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report, its annual report on the status of religious freedom around the world. In his remarks at the public...

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Sentinel Project launches visualization of persecution of Baha’is in Iran

The Sentinel Project, an independent Toronto-based NGO that focuses on genocide prevention, has recently launched a visualization of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. The Sentinel Project is not...

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Iranian Baha’is face “widespread and entrenched” discrimination says UN...

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE GENEVA — On May 22, 2013, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued a series of pointed recommendations to the Iranian government – recommendations that...

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Congressmen Moran and Engel Submit Statements to Congressional Record

On May 22 and 23, 2013, Congressmen James Moran of Virginia and Eliot Engel of New York entered statements into the Congressional Record marking the May 14 fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of the...

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VOA Broadcasts Editorial on Five Year Anniversary of the Yaran

On May 24, Voice of America’s View from Washington broadcast an editorial highlighting the five year imprisonment of the seven Baha’i leaders in Iran. The editorial featured excerpts from remarks made...

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“The Gardener” by Mohsen Makhmalbaf premieres in the United States

The Gardener, a film by renowned Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, will premiere in the United States on June 11 and 12, 2013 in the Washington DC area. The film follows Makhmalbaf as he travels to...

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“Five Years Too Many” campaign leads to global outpouring of support

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE A global outpouring of support and concern for the plight of the seven Iranian Baha’i leaders – and for the situation of other prisoners of conscience in Iran – marked...

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Representatives Grimm, Schakowsky, Moran, and Jenkins invite colleagues to...

On July 17, 2013, U.S. Representatives Michael Grimm (R-NY-11), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9), James Moran (D-VA-8), and Lynn Jenkins, (R-KS-2) sent a letter to their colleagues in the House of...

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ILO expresses concern over economic repression of Iranian Baha’is

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE GENEVA — The International Labor Organization (ILO) has expressed “deep concern” over continuing economic and educational discrimination against Baha’is in Iran. In...

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Murder of Mr. Ataollah Rezvani was religiously motivated

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE From the available information it is now clear that the murder in Iran of Mr. Ataollah Rezvani was religiously motivated. It is understood that Mr. Rezvani was shot in the...

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VOA “Ofogh” Live Interview

Yesterday, the Voice of America Persian TV program “Ofogh” broadcast a live interview about the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, emphasizing the recent fatwa against Baha’is issued by the Supreme...

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Despite promises, Iran continues to violate human rights, says UN report

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE  UNITED NATIONS — Despite recent signals by Iran that it intends to improve on its human rights record, there has been little evidence of change, according to a report issued...

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New video documents Iranian government’s sponsored violence against its own...

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE GENEVA — Parva Rahmanian and her family used to run a flower shop in Iran – until the government revoked their business license. The reason given was simple: as Baha’is, they...

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Baha’is in Iran told to leave town or face knife attacks after raids on 14 homes

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE GENEVA — Following raids on 14 Baha’i homes in the Iranian city of Abadeh last month, government agents summoned the occupants for questioning and urged them to leave town or...

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UN calls on Iran to live up to its human rights promises

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE UNITED NATIONS — Today’s vote expressing concern over Iran’s continued human rights violations demonstrates that the international community will not be swayed by mere...

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English translation of a letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani from the...

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE The below is an English translation of a letter addressed to Iranian President, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, from the imprisoned Yaran-i-Iran, or Friends of Iran, the former seven...

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Baha’i cemetery in Sanandaj, Iran, attacked and partly destroyed

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE GENEVA — Among the many acts of persecution to which the Baha’is in Iran are being subjected, one of the most heartless is the wanton desecration of their cemeteries. Most...

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UN General Assembly again expresses “deep concern” over continuing human...

BAHA’I WORLD NEWS SERVICE UNITED NATIONS, New York  – The UN General Assembly today expressed “deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations” in Iran, showing that the...

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U.S. Senate Passes Resolution 75 Condemning the Persecution of Baha’is in Iran

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution 75 “condemning the Government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of its Bahá’í minority and its continued violation of the International...

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