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3 Ahl-E-Hagh prisoners are exiled from Uremia to Yazd

  Bakhsh Ali Mohammadi, Sahand Ali Mohammadi and Ebadollah Ghasem Zadeh, the 3 Ahl-E-Hagh prisoners, are exiled from Uremia to Yazd. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), these three prisoners of conscience and the followers of Yari ethic Ahl-e-Hagh have been exiled to 2 different prisons in Yazd prison on […]

Yazd residents protest against growing number of shrines

  Many residents of the historic city of Yazd are objecting to the growing number of religious shrines that the government is building there. While protestors gathered outside the local branch of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization (ICHO) and local municipal offices, their spokesperson told an ICHO representative that the authorities were forcibly evicting people […]

Yazd Judiciary official promises crackdown on religious minorities

    The head of the Yazd Judiciary, Gholamhossein Heidari said in the meeting of the Ethnic and Religion Commission of the Yazd Security Council, “If ethnicities, groups and various religions that are known as ‘Zaleh’ [meaning worthless] and the government does not recognize carry out activities in an attempt to cause disruptions and problems […]

Yazd, Bride of Desert

    Yazd is the capital of Yazd Province in Iran, and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located 270 km southeast of Isfahan. Because of generations of adaptations to its desert surroundings, Yazd is an architecturally unique city. It is also known in Iran for the high quality of its handicrafts, especially […]