Many thanks to #IrishMissionUN For highlighting many serious #HumanRightsViolations in #Iran at the #UN #HumanRights Council and calling on the #Iranian government to end #persecution and #oppression of many groups including #women, #Bahais and #Bahaiwomen

Many thanks to @irishexaminer
for including my piece in today's paper about #MichaelLongley and #MahvashSabet and their sharing of the #PENPinterPrize in 2017. @ucc.ie @englishpen.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Delighted to present the fascinating and complicated story of James O'Kinealy of Cavan,a graduate of @uniofgalway.bsky.social,and his scholarship around Islam in service to Empire in the late 1800's. @tandfresearch.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social #studyofreligionsucc
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KH65C...

Sad news indeed.

We stand in solidarity with Iranian poet Mahvash Sabat, 71, serving a second 10-year jail sentence following her arrest in 2022. She recently underwent open-heart surgery and will be returned to prison very soon. #FreeMahvash
Please read & repost.
www.newarab.com/news/iranian...

When they shared the Pen Pinter Prize for poetry in 2017, the great Irish poet, Michael Longley, described #MahvashSabet as “a songbird trapped in a cage”. Having just had open heart surgery, Mahvash will now be returned to that cage. It should not happen. #FreeMahvash #Iran.

Campaign for #Bahai poet, #MahvashSabet, who is to be returned to prison after open-heart surgery and is seriously ill. 5.30 this evening on social media. #Iran #Bahai #FoRB #HumanRights

Two years ago this piece appeared in the Journal highlighting the plight of #MahvashSabet, an award winning poet. In prison now for a second 10 year term for her faith, 71 year's old and severely ill. #Iran should release her immediately. #FoRB #Bahai www.thejournal.ie/readme/minor...

Thanks to the "Echo" for including my piece on #HumanRightsDay2024. Focus on #HumanRights never more important. #HumanRightsEducation

The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously passed Resolution 74 (S.Res.74). This resolution condemns the Iranian government’s state-sponsored persecution of #Bahai’s and other religious minorities, and its ongoing violations of international #humanrights agreements. #Iran #FoRB

71-year-old #Bahai prisoner of conscience, Mahvash Sabet, sentenced to a second leghty prison term for her faith, is now in hospital in #Iran in dangerously poor health and awaiting surgery. She must be released after her surgery. Mahvash deserves freedom and dignity. #FreeMahvash #HumanRights

EU Parliament condemns #Iran 's persecution of #Bahai 's and abuse of women and other minorities.

www.bic.org/news/europea...

Regional Australia has welcomed Iranian Bahá'ís with open arms. "Back home, we’d be persecuted" - Dellaram Vreeland. #Iran #Bahai #OurStoryIsOne.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#Bahai citizens of #Iran are targets of government led persecution from cradle to grave

In 1913, Ataollah Rezvani, a #Bahai man in #Iran, was brutally murdered for being a member of Iran’s largest religious minority, the Baha’i Faith. A court ruling this October finally confirmed that Mr. Rezvani was the victim of a premeditated murder - but no compensation awarded as he was a Bahai.

www.bic.org/news/united-...

"Today the Baha'i International Community is taking the grave step of exposing, in public, our profound concerns at six decades of discrimination and persecution against the Egyptian Baha'i community, a situation which is getting worse.” — Dr. @ShaddadHaddad, Bahá’í International Community

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