Shirin Ebadi
Iran’s empty promise to free political prisoners
In September, as newly elected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was on his way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Iran said it would pardon and release 80 political prisoners.
‘We have been working to undo these associations for a decade’
The prepared text of Nycole Turmel’s remarks yesterday to the Global Conference on World’s Religions after 9/11.
“They don’t want to leave a trace of anything Baha’i”
Some fear the oppression of a little-known religious minority in Iran is intensifying