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Betty Reed, who played a key role in the administration of the Bahá’í community in the United Kingdom, and further afield in Europe, has died at the age of 87. Mrs Reed, who spent her final years in a care home near Hollywood, County Down in Northern Ireland, passed away on 25 October. Born in [...]

An Iranian inspector who examined the 2006 arrests of a group of young Bahá’ís in Shiraz, Iran, filed a confidential report dated June 2008 confirming what Bahá’ís have said all along: that their activities were strictly humanitarian in nature and did not involve the “illegal” teaching of the Bahá’í faith. The report, signed by an [...]

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has expressed his concern over human rights violations in Iran against Bahá’ís, other minorities, women and juveniles. In a 20-page document, Mr Ban responded to a request from the General Assembly last December for a “comprehensive report” on the human rights situation in Iran. While noting [...]

A new film about one young man’s journey around the world to understand the Bahá’í faith – its beliefs, its humanitarian efforts, and its ongoing struggle against persecution – is about to be premiered in London. The Wayfarer is an informative documentary written and directed by filmmaker Jess Firth. Mr Firth first encountered the Bahá’í faith while visiting [...]

The UK Bahá’í community has welcomed a statement by the Foreign Secretary condemning a draft bill currently under discussion in Iran’s Parliament which would make apostasy a capital offence. The Rt Hon David Miliband MP said he deplored the way in which the Iranian Parliament is “now discussing a draft penal code that would set [...]

As the new academic year gets underway, young Bahá’ís in Iran have once again come up against their government’s systematic policy of preventing them from accessing higher education. Although in its public stance the Iranian government maintains that Bahá’ís are free to attend university, Bahá’í students attempting to gain admittance to universities and other institutions this term found that [...]