The Iranian human rights organization RAHANA has provided a summary of anti-Baha’i rights violations in the first week of November. Four events in this excerpt highlight the ongoing judicial harassment and imprisonment of Baha’is for charges related to their beliefs: November 1 Baha’i...
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The Sentinel Project is proud to announce the release of a new report on our Iranian Baha’i situation-of-concern. Unfortunately, this “Supplementary Report: The Threat of Genocide to the Baha’is of Iran” does not contain good news, as it demonstrates that the high level of...
On 31 October 2010, the Sentinel Project core team gathered together in Toronto to conduct our Annual Strategic Review (ASR). The aim of this meeting was to examine our progress over the past year, highlight strengths and weaknesses, and set goals for the year ahead. On the topic of strengths, the...
On 28 October 2010, the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide hosted an event about the role of hate speech in the genocidal process. Guests at the talk, entitled “Dangerous Speech on the Road to Genocide,” saw Professor Susan Benesch of the World...
The Sentinel Project team is inviting all of our blog readers, Twitter followers, and Facebook members to help us out with information gathering. While we are still looking for committed volunteers to take on specific roles in fundraising, technology, public relations, and research, anyone can...
Our research team has been working hard on a supplement to the Baha’i threat assessment of 15 May 2009. This new report will cover the key developments in the Iran SOC since that time and will be released tomorrow.
The Sentinel Project is pleased to welcome two new additions to our team in South America. Marcelo Valenca, based in Brazil, will be our primary correspondent for South America as contacts are developed in other countries. Bruna Lima, also in Brazil, will be assisting Marcelo in his work. Marcelo...
The International Federation for Human Rights has released a report outlining Iranian government discrimination towards ethnic and religious minorities, including Baha’is. Read the report here.
Iran Press Watch has conveyed a report from an Iranian opposition website that Jinous Sobhani, a Baha’i and former aide to Shirin Ebadi, has been sentenced to two years in prison by an Iranian court. Sobhani was once the secretary of the Human Rights Defenders Centre, which is headed by...
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