Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Yesterday we found out that the seven pictured above, the former ad hoc coordinating group for the Baha’is in Iran, had gone on trial. They’d been held without formal charge in Evin Prison in Tehran since Spring 2008. Iranian government-sponsored media repeated the charges against the Baha’is:
espionage,
“propaganda activities against the Islamic order,”
the establishment of an [...]
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Cherie Blair Pictures
Cherie Blair has published an excellent article in today’s Times about the persecution of the Baha’is and other religious minorities in Iran.
Shirin Ebadi defends the Baha’is
Cherie Blair praises the courage of Dr Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and, like Mrs Blair herself, a renowned human rights lawyer for taking on the defence [...]
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The UK’s Channel 4 News interviewed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr Shirin Ebadi tonight about the harassment she suffers in Iran partly because of her defence of the seven Baha’i leaders currently in jail and facing trial in Tehran. Dr Ebadi, a human rights lawyer, is prominent for her promotion of women’s human rights. She [...]
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Why are Baha’is the world over holding their breath?
Well, it seems possible that the seven Baha’i leaders in Iran may go on trial in Tehran as early as tomorrow (Sunday).
Action so far
Governments and parliamentarians in various countries, prompted by the Baha’is, have swept (or lumbered) into action, assessed what they could do, issued statements, drawn [...]
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Agence France Press (AFP) has just released the news that the Iranian authorities have closed down the offices of Nobel Laureate human rights defender Shirin Ebadi.
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian police shut down the office of a human rights group headed by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday, the deputy head of the Human Rights [...]
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The Bahá’í World News Service has just published its latest update about the persecutions of the Bahá’ís in Iran.
Sadly, the seven members of Iran’s Bahá’í coordinating committee remain in jail in Tehran, uncharged. Bahá’ís around the world are very concerned for their safety.
Dr Shirin Ebadi’s continued willingness to defend the seven is a tribute to [...]
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Is Shirin Ebadi’s daughter a member of the Bahá’í Faith? This was the claim made by IRNA, the Iranian news agency, recently, But the claim is completely untrue.
According to Africasia.com (which has published a story from AFP), Iranian Nobel peace laureate has lodged a complaint with the court about IRNA’s false claim:
Ebadi accused the state [...]
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I was thrilled to learn that six women Nobel Peace Prize winners (only 12 women have ever won the Nobel Prize) have put out a statement calling on the Iranian government to free the seven leading Bahá’ís who are currently in jail in Tehran.
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire (founders of the Peace People in [...]
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Shirin Ebadi is an impressive woman. Nobel Peace Prize winner, practising lawyer in Iran’s courts, and tireless defender of democracy and human rights for the people of Iran, she puts her own safety and security at huge risk and has received not a few death threats in her time.
On Friday I had the great pleasure [...]
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Globe and Mail Update has published a strongly worded commentary by Payam Akhavan, professor of international law at McGill University in Montreal, co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre and a former UN war-crimes prosecutor at The Hague, on the recent arrests of the Bahá’í leadership and the appalling state of human rights in [...]
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