Prof. Leonard Lewisohn is the Lecturer in Persian, at Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter in England. Recently he posted the following notice on an internet list of Persian studies scholars and due to the significance of this issue for human rights in Iran, we wish to share his [...]

According to the Turkish Daily News:
The Baha’i community in Turkey wants official recognition from the state and desires the elimination of prejudices and inaccurate public descriptions of their faith. The Baha’i faith has around 10,000 members in Turkey.
[...]
Rights once given to them between 1960 and 1990 were taken away when the Interior Ministry issued instructions [...]

About a year ago, 54 Baha’i youth were arrested in Shiraz, Iran, on charges of serving the poor in dispossessed areas surrounding the city by carrying out social-economic assistance.
It was announced that three of them, Raha Sabet, Sasan Taghva and Haleh Rouhi, were sentenced to prison for four years. The remaining youth were sentenced to [...]

The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, 20 November 2007, passed a resolution (A/C.3/62/L.43) condemning Iran’s appalling human rights record.
In this resolution, the General Assembly expressed “its very serious concern” at a whole range of egregious human rights violations, including torture, flogging, amputations, public executions, stoning, execution of minors, violent action taken [...]

Earlier today it was learned that Feizollah Roshan [Faydu‘llah Rushan] was imprisoned yesterday in the town of Sari, Iran.
He was arrested last November and subject to intense interrogations spanning two months. Eventually, in spring of 2007, he was freed on bail, but had received a sentence of 1-year imprisonment and 4-years of exile.
The [...]

The Baha’i Faith in Egypt blog provides links and summaries from international media outlets that recently reported on what the author considers a “deplorable situation facing the Egyptian Baha’is.”
The author also addresses several crucial issues:
1) These cases concern real people whose rights are being violated and who continue to suffer on a daily basis. This [...]

Bravo to Sam Qandchi, the editor of Iranscope (http://www.iranscope.com) for its 6 November 2007 intelligent and well-reasoned editorial! We were deeply impressed by the humanity and spirit of unity shown by this journal:
http://www.ghandchi.com/489-recognizebahais.htm
This editorial puts a simple question to the former President of Iran, Khatami, who has become Iran’s spokesperson for “dialogue among civilization”. [...]

Last week, on 25 October 2007, the European Parliament approved a resolution on Iran.
This resolution expresses concern about the overall situation of Human Rights in Iran, referring the status of several religious and ethnic minorities. The specific situation of the Baha’is is mentioned twice.
The European Parliament reminds the world that “members of [...]

From a mailing list:
The government officials in the city of Najafabad , in Isfahan have allocated a certain area on the mountains for Baha’is to bury their dead, in the middle of no where, of which Baha’is are still thankful. Very recently, as you know, this site allocated to the Baha’I people had been desecrated [...]

The following article appeared in The Weekly Standard, 27 October 2007. We highly recommend it to our readers:
“Murder with Impunity”
October 27, 2007
The Weekly Standard
Paul Marshall
The Iranian government is currently intensifying its persecution of its largest religious minority, the Baha’is. This reveals something of the government’s nature, and also sheds light [...]