Sorour Sorouriyan

Nahawand (Persian: نهاوند)

RAHANA: Baha’i Citizen Sorour Sorouriyan who began serving his sentence on May 23rd has been transferred to the Nahavand Prison on August 31st.

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Vilashahr or Vīlā Shahr (Persian: ويلاشهر) is a small town in Iran, located in the rural area of Isfahan (city)

Sunday 7 Shahrivar 1389 [29 Aug 2010] at 6:12 AM

HRANA News – On Wednesday morning the 3rd of Shahrivar 1389 [25 Aug 2010], Mojgan Ebadi, a Baha’i, was detained at her home in Vilashahr, a suburb of Isfahan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilashahr], and her computer and personal mobile telephone were confiscated.

In a telephone call with her family, she gave the news of her arrest; she is currently being detained in Dastgerd prison in Isfahan.

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(30 August 2010 BWNS ) GENEVA — A United Nations panel of experts has expressed concern over Iran’s continued repression of ethnic and religious minorities, including members of the Baha’i Faith.

In conclusions issued last Friday, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) questioned why Iranian minorities – such as Arabs, Azeris, Balochis, Kurds and Baha’is – are so poorly represented in Iran’s public life.

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Minoo Vosough

(Posted by: Moni Basu – CNN Wire editor) Minoo Vosough can still hear the guards’ boots marching down the cold hallways of Iran’s Gohardasht prison. The screams of other inmates burn her ears.

She can feel the thud of a fist coming down on her head. And theworld going black as she was blindfolded and shoved in a courtroom to hear her fate.

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Omid Djalili a British stand-up comic

Iranians are arising to support Bahá’ís from all walks of life. Omid Djalili a British stand-up comic speaks about the persecuted Bahá’í religious minority:

31-Aug-2010 (The Sun): I am deeply saddened by the Iranian government’s treatment of its own citizens.

To say that the Iranian judicial system might need ‘a bit of updating’ is an understatement.

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By Roxana Saberi
Saturday, August 28, 2010

For several weeks last year, I shared a cell in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, two leaders of Iran’s minority Bahai faith. I came to see them as my sisters, women whose only crimes were to peacefully practice their religion and resist pressure from their captors to compromise their principles. For this, apparently, they and five male colleagues were sentenced this month to 20 years in prison.

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