HRANA News Agency – Faran Hessami, who is serving a four-year sentence for educational activities with the Bahai Open University (BIHE), has been granted a 3-day furlough.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), she began serving her sentence on July 15, 2012. Continue reading “Faran Hessami gets 3-day leave”
HRANA News Agency – Two Sunni prisoners of conscience from Iran’s Baloch minority were executed on Thursday morning in Zahedan Central prison, Sistan-Baluchestan province of Iran.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), 22-year old Vahid Shah Bakhsh and 23-year old Mahmoud Shah Bakhsh were taken to the gallows and hanged on 13 November 2014 on charges of ‘Moharabeh [enmity against God] and acting against national security’. Continue reading “Two Sunni Baloch prisoners executed in Iran”
HRANA News Agency – On November 3, which coincided with the day of Ashura on Muharram 10, a mob gathered at a cottage belonging to the Hemmati family in the mountain village of Auj Tappeh, which lies to the south of Qazvin.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the cottage is used only seasonally, in relation to agricultural activities. Continue reading “Arson destroys Bahai-owned houses in rural Hamadan”
HRANA News Agency – Mahna Samandari and Narges Khatounbarqi, two Bahais from Tabriz whose burial in the city has been blocked because of their religious beliefs, have been taken to Miandoab by local officials and buried in the Bahai cemetery there, without informing the families of the deceased.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the burial took place on November 13. Continue reading “Mahna Samandari and Narges Khatounbarqi buried in Miandoab”
HRANA News Agency – “Mohammad Ali Taheri”, a prisoner of conscience is in life threatening health condition because of his hunger strike. After 23 days of hunger strike, he is extremely weak and has been recovered several times over the past couple of days from unconsciousness by injecting fluids and drugs at prison’s clinic.
HRANA reports based on the news from “Sahamnews”, this prisoner has been on hunger strike in protest to his case which remained open in the charges of “Corruption on earth”. His instigators attempting to keep him at solitary confinement and use this time to create more evidence and grounds to prosecute him at a “Kangaroo court” to give him a death sentence. Continue reading “Critical condition of Mohammad Ali Taheri during his Hunger strike”
HRANA News Agency – 16 Sunni converts from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority were arrested on Monday during a Qur’an class in the Shekara district of Ahwaz city, Iran.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the men were arrested after Iranian security forces raided the house of one of the men, Mohammad Timas Silawi, where the men had gathered for a Qur’an and Arabic language class. Continue reading “Iran arrests 16 Sunni converts at Qur’an class in Ahwaz”
HRANA News Agency – last week, Mohammad Ali Taheri was summoned to the court from Solitary Confinement at Ward 2-A of Evin Prison while he was on hunger strike and was suffering from extreme weakness.
According to the report of HRANA, quoting from a close news site to Mohammad Ali Taheri, last week, while Mr Taheri was in extreme state of weakness due to his second week of hunger strike, he was summoned to the court from solitary confinement at Ward 2-A of Evin Prison. However, the trial was postponed to a later time as he was unable to speak due to his weakness. Continue reading “New trial for Mohammad Ali Taheri”
HRANA News Agency – Adnan Rahmat-Penah, a Bahai from Shiraz, reported to Adel-Abad prison on November 11, to begin serving a one-year sentence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he was arrested during a raid on his home on December 12, 2012, and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence’s Detention Facility 100 in Shiraz. Continue reading “Adnan Rahmat-Penah begins one-year sentence in Shiraz”
HRANA News Agency – Iran’s Supreme Court has confirmed a 33-year prison sentence for a Sunni Iraqi man on charges of ‘Moharabeh’ [enmity against God].
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Marivan Abdolkarim Reza, a devout Sunni Muslim originally from Kirkuk in Iraq, was sentenced to 33 years imprisonment by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Continue reading “Iran sentences Sunni Iraqi man to 33 years in prison”
HRANA News Agency – Masoud Rezaei, new converted to Christianity, resigned himself to Adel Abad prison in Shiraz to serve his 5 years in prison sentence.
According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Masoud Rezaei, new converted to Christianity and the Lutheran church of Shiraz resigned himself to Adel Abad prison for serving his sentence. Continue reading “Masoud Rezaei began his imprisonment sentence in Adel Abad Prison”
