بقلم سانديب سين جريوال
24 أيار 2009
المنامة، البحرين – تقوم ناشطة بحرينية بحث الحكومة على الاعتراف بالديانة البهائية ومنح المجتمع البهائي حرية التجمع والعبادة.
قالت إسراء الشافعي، التي يركز عملها على الأقليات العرقية والدينية، أنه حان الوقت لأن تقوم الحكومات العربية والخليجية بالاعتراف بالبهائيين على نحو قانوني.
قالت الناشطة أنه “يجب على السلطات المختصة منح المجتمع البهائي الرخصة [...]

Article By: Sandeep Singh Grewal
[Read this article in Arabic.]
Manama, Bahrain- A Bahraini activist is urging the government to recognise Baha’i Faith and allow the community to gather and worship freely.
Esra’a Al Shafei, whose work focuses on ethnic and religious minorities, said it was high time Arab and Gulf governments legally recognised the Baha’is.
“The community should [...]

Article by: Sandeep Singh Grewal
Manama, Bahrain – 23 May is a day when Baha’is from different pockets of the world celebrates the 165th anniversary of the birth of the Baha´i faith. While in Iran, families of seven Baha´i leaders are having sleepless nights after authorities reportedly arrested and jailed the group. The Iranian deputy [...]

This is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Elaph.
Author: Majdi Khalil | Originally published in Arabic on: Friday, 15 May 2009
Struggles for freedom of faith in Egypt
It never occurred to Basma Moussa or Camliya Lutfi that they would become symbols for defending freedom of faith in Egypt when they [...]

Exactly one year ago, on the 14th of May, 2008, seven innocent members of the Baha’i Faith were arrested in Iran. Many people around the world spent months wondering why they were imprisoned and possibly tortured. The government had given them no fair trial, and launched no public statements with solid evidence of any “crime.” [...]

Six weeks after they were forced to flee in the aftermath of an attack that left their homes completely burnt down, the Baha’is of Shoraniya remain incapable of returning to their village. Attorney Adel Ramadan from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights requested security officials to ensure the safe return of the displaced Baha’is to [...]

The Committee on the Right to Education for the Baha’is, founded by the legendary Human Rights Activists in Iran, held 2 simultaneous forums in Tehran and Shiraz. Below is their report:
This unprecedented forum was held today in Tehran. The pictures of student prisoners on display punctuated the importance of this meeting.
The meeting was [...]

The following is a translation of an article by Alaa Al Aswany:
In 1982, I was appointed as resident doctor at the Department of Oral Surgery at the College of Dentistry, and a fellow doctor, named Basma, was appointed on the same day. I worked with Basma for a whole year, and a true friendship developed [...]

Many people have been coming to us with various concerns and frequent questions. We felt the urge to address some of such concerns:
What is the political “agenda” behind this campaign?
This campaign is far from political. Civil rights is a societal issue and not a political one. BahaiRights.org is an independent campaign for human rights and [...]