An Iranian inspector who examined the 2006 arrests of a group of young Baha’is in Shiraz, Iran, filed a confidential report dated June 2008 confirming what Baha’is have said all along: that their activities were strictly humanitarian in nature and did not involve the “illegal” teaching of the Baha’i Faith.

Philippe Copeland at Baha'i Thought wonders at the senseless decimation of trees in a Baha'i cemetery in Iran.

Mideast Youth has a suggestion for Iranian authorities wishing to inform Baha'is that they’re not welcome in that country’s universities.

NEW YORK (BWNS) — As the new academic year got under way, young Baha'is in Iran again found the door to higher education closed.

The Baha'i-inspired Tahirih Justice Center near Washington, D.C., will open its first satellite office in 2009 in Houston, Texas. The organization provides legal services to immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.

Three Baha’is currently imprisoned in Yemen are facing the possibility of imminent deportation to Iran

The Baha’i International Community categorically rejects statements reported in the Resalat daily, an Iranian newspaper, that seven Baha’i leaders who have been imprisoned in Iran since May have confessed to setting up an illegal organization with ties to Israel to undermine Iranian national security.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran.

On June 24, 2008, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (VA – 10th district) introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling on the Egyptian Government to respect human rights and freedoms of religion and expression in Egypt.

Six Nobel Peace Prize laureates have issued a statement calling on the Iranian government to immediately free seven prominent Iranian Baha’is imprisoned in Tehran.