The following exceptional article by Steven was posted on MideastYouth and we thought the readers of BahaiRights would be interested in it.
The Baha’is: A Tiny Weird Group in Your Backyard
The Bahá’ís have been in the news out of Iran and neighboring regions.
I could go on about the governmental angle but my real focus is the [...]

By: Behrouz Setoudeh (Iranian political analysts and commentator)
Translation by: M. Rouhani
Monstrous spite of corrupt reactionary Muslim religious rulers against Iran’s Baha’i citizens is nothing new; it has a 150 year history, which has to this date resulted in the execution and displacement of tens of thousands of our Iranian countrymen. After the genocide and mass [...]

According to the Baha’i leadership studies, Iraq is home to less than 2,000 Baha’is, spread all across the country. In 1970, Iraq banned the Baha’i Faith, and in 1975 there was a subsequent decision of prohibiting the issuance of identification documents to Baha’is. In 2007 the government abolished the Ministry of Interior’s decision [...]

Below is a translation of a recently published report on the Egyptian news portal Bab.com
Al-Qaradawi: the marriage of a Muslim man to a Baha’i woman is wrong
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, President of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars, issued a formal legal opinion (fatwa) that it is illegal for a Muslim man to marry a Baha’i [...]

This is a translation of an article that recently appeared in the Egyptian weekly magazine Rosa Al-Yousef:
Freedom of belief and the Arab mind dilemma
By Pastor Rif’at Fikri Sa’yid
Issue number 4238 of Rosa Al-Yousef’s magazine, released on 29 August 2009, contained a unique and bold article about freedom of belief, and I thought of providing my [...]

The American Public Radio International (PRI) recently reported about the Baha’i community in Egypt, following the implementation of the court ruling that allowed Baha’is to leave the religious affiliation field in their IDs blank.
PRI interviewed several members of the community, including Dr. Raouf Hindi, the Baha’i whose battle in court to allow his daughters to [...]

The following is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Al Youm:
The first judicial ruling to give the custody of a child to his mother’s family after she embraced the Baha’i faith.
By Siham Al Basha
Today, Department 12 at Al-Zananiri Court issued the first ruling to give the custody of a little child to [...]

For many months, we have been thinking about creating a day in which everyone can become aware of Baha’i human rights abuses. We approached our friends at Iran Press Watch with the idea and we agreed upon July 11 in order to mark Baha’i Rights Day, a day dedicated to support the human rights for [...]

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 [...]