• Welcome

  Welcome to Bahá'í News UK, the online source for news about the Bahá'í community in the UK and worldwide. You may leave comments on the posts, but please note that comments must be approved by the moderators before they appear. The moderators' decisions are final.

• Subscribe to Bahá’í News UK

  
  

  Subscribe in your favourite reader

  Receive Bahá'í News UK by email

  
• Search for:

• Recent Posts

  • Glasgow interfaith vigil for Iran’s imprisoned Baha’i leaders
  • Scottish Catholic leader condemns treatment of Iran’s Baha’i leaders
  • Cherie Blair condemns imprisonment of Iran’s Baha’i leaders
  • Board of Deputies of British Jews condemns treatment of Iran’s Baha’i leaders
  • Omid Djalili shares concern about fate of Iran’s Baha’i leaders

• Links

  • Bahá’í International Community
  • Bahá’í World News Service
  • One Country
  • The Bahá’í Faith

• Categories

  Select Category Arts and entertainment  (10) Bahá’í administration  (8) Baha’i community  (49) Comment  (4) Education  (11) environment  (4) Holy Places  (5) Human Rights  (91) inter-faith  (15) International  (1) Iran  (91) Parliamentary  (28) People  (27) Social action  (18) Sustainable Development  (1) UN  (1) Uncategorized  (4) women  (13)

• Archives

  Select Month August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008

LONDON, 26 Aug – Baha’is in Scotland and throughout the UK have welcomed a statement issued by Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh and head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland. Cardinal O’Brien strongly condemns the unjust imprisonment of seven leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran. His statement reads: Having been [...]

LONDON, 25 August – Cherie Blair has published an article in The Guardian’s Comment is Free blog roundly condemning the imprisonment of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran. The seven leaders – Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Mahvash Sabet, Behrouz Tavakkoli, and Vahid Tizfahm – were all members of a national-level group that, [...]

LONDON, 23 August – Baha’is in the UK were pleased to learn that the Board of Deputies of British Jews has issued a statement condemning the imprisonment of Iran’s seven Baha’i leaders: The seven Iranian Bahá’í leaders sentenced to 20 year prison terms are yet further victims of the Iranian regime’s flagrant disregard towards its [...]

Actor and comedian Omid Djalili has released a video expressing his grave concern about the 20 year prison sentences handed down to the seven Baha’i leaders in Iran. Omid Djalili, who is himself of Iranian heritage, invites viewers to investigate the situation for themselves. This special report on the Baha’i World News Service provides a [...]

NEW YORK — The harsh prison sentences handed down to seven Iranian Baha’i leaders who are absolutely innocent of any wrongdoing is a judgment against an entire religious community, the Baha’i International Community said today. Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, whose Defenders of Human Rights Center represented the Baha’i defendants, said she was “stunned” by the reported 20-year [...]

LONDON, 11 August – On hearing the report that the seven leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran had each been sentenced to 20 years in prison, Foreign Secretary William Hague has issued a statement. “I was appalled to hear of the 20 year prison sentence handed out to the seven spiritual leaders of the [...]

GENEVA, 11 August (BWNS) – Reports that seven Iranian Baha’i leaders have each received prison sentences of 20 years have been met with condemnation from governments and human rights organizations around the world. Australia, Canada, France, Germany – and the President of the European Parliament – have all expressed strong statements of concern. They are [...]

NEW YORK — The Baha’i International Community has received reports indicating that seven Iranian Baha’i leaders have each received jail sentences of 20 years. The two women and five men have been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison since they were arrested in 2008 – six of them on 14 May and one of them [...]

The judge presiding over the trial of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran has extended their detention by two months. No verdict has been yet been handed down from the final session of the trial of the seven, which took place on 14 June. The seven were taken to the judge’s office on 28 July. The [...]

Images from mobile phone footage taken in Ivel showing fiercely burning fires and several Baha’i properties reduced to rubble Homes belonging to some 50 Baha’i families in the Iranian village of Ivel in Mazandaran were torched last Thursday, 22 June, a report from the Baha’i World News Service confirms. Villagers – incited by elements inimical [...]