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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
March 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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...
Michael Longley and the Songbird of Iran
Mr Longley died at the age of 85 in hospital
www.irishexaminer.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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...
Ireland and Islam: James O’Kinealy and Wahhabism in India
The purpose of this article is to explore James O’Kinealy’s (1838–1903) contribution to scholarship around Islamic movements in India, while a functionary of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 186...
www.tandfonline.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sad news indeed.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the esteemed poet Michael Longley's death last night in Belfast. We extend our sincere condolences to his wife, Edna and to his family, and to poets all over the world whose lives have been enriched by his poetry. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
January 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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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...
January 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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.
January 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
January 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
Opinion: "You can't see the sorrow after lights out..." - Iran's persecution of Bahá’ís
Brendan McNamara says we cannot turn a blind eye while minorities are persecuted for their faith.
www.thejournal.ie
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Thanks to the "Echo" for including my piece on #HumanRightsDay2024. Focus on #HumanRights never more important. #HumanRightsEducation
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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
December 6, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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...
Regional Australia has welcomed Iranian Bahá'ís with open arms. Back home, we’d be persecuted | Dellaram Vreeland
The community-building activities my family and I participate in every week are a core part of our faith. In Iran, it would see us arrested
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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#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.
November 21, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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.
November 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM
"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
November 20, 2024 at 8:59 AM
November 19, 2024 at 4:28 PM