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Tag : religious minorities

September 19, 2018

Rouhani Should Be Called to Account for Human Rights Abuses in Iran at UN Gathering

Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the ...

December 22, 2017

Guardian Council Rejects Parliament’s Amended Law Allowing Religious Minorities to Run in Local Elections

Six days after Iran’s Parliament passed an amendment reaffirming the right of minorities to run in local council elections, the Guardian ...

November 22, 2017

Intelligence Ministry Pressures Two Sunni Rouhani Campaign Managers to Halt Peaceful Advocacy Efforts

Within the course of the same week, two Sunni Muslim politicians were warned by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry to stop advocating for Sunni Muslims rights, especially the inclusion of Sunnis in the president’s cabinet ...

November 15, 2017

Supreme Administrative Court Blocks Judicial-Parliamentary Agreement to Reinstate Zoroastrian City Council Member  

The Supreme Administrative Court in Tehran has blocked an agreement by the speaker of Parliament and the head of the judiciary to reinstate Sepanta Niknam, a member of the Zoroastrian faith, to the Yazd City Council ...

November 14, 2017

Former MP: Preventing Religious Minorities From Running in Iran’s Local Elections Violates Constitutional Rights

Passing legislation to restrict the rights of religious minorities in Iran would violate their rights as equal citizens, a prominent reformist former ...

September 9, 2017

Iran’s Supreme Leader Forbids Discrimination Against Minorities in Rare Outreach to Sunnis

Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...

May 23, 2017

Formerly Imprisoned Lawyer and Religious Minority Activist Expelled From University Without Explanation

Mostafa Daneshjou, a formerly imprisoned lawyer and member of a Sufi religious order known as ...

June 21, 2016

Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights

ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed ...

February 2, 2016

Two Dozen Iranian Baha’is Sentenced to Six to Eleven Years for Practicing Their Faith

Courtesy of BBC Persian Twenty-four Baha’is from northeastern Iran have been handed down sentences that ...

January 16, 2013

Christian Converts Face Criminalization of their Faith in Iran

The 73-page comprehensive report, The Cost of Faith: Persecution of Christian Protestants and Converts in Iran, documents a pattern of rights violations that extends to all walks of life for Protestant converts in Iran: they face severe restrictions on religious practice and association, arbitrary arrests ...

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