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2014 21 Sep
201-		 The Houthi movement, which championed Yemen's Zaidi Shia Muslim minority and had fought a series of rebellions against Mr Saleh during his tenure as president in the previous decade, took advantage of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's weakness by taking control of their northern heartland of Saada province and neighbouring areas overthrowing the internationally-recognised government. By February 2015 the group had dissolved parliament and announced plans for a transitional government.
  • See the essay Allies of Convenience or Birds of a Feather? by Oved Lobel for a discussion of Iran and the Houthis.
    		• Sanaa, Yemen; Yemen; Yemen, Recent history
    2014 16 Sep
    201-    		 Subsequent to his arrest on the 15th of October, 2014, Mr. Kamali was interrogated by the lead judge on his case in connection with the charges against him in the presence of his attorney, who, despite objections raised, was not allowed to speak. Concerns are raised in relation to the independence of the members of the judiciary and their reported discriminatory and intolerant speech towards religious minorities. [OHCR Report] Persecution, Yemen; Sanaa, Yemen; Yemen
    2014 14 Sep
    201-    		 Some 500 people attend the unveiling of the design of the first local Bahá'í House of Worship in Norte del Cauca, Colombia [BWNS1020]
  • Julian Gutierrez Chacon was the architect for the House of Worship.
  • The relationship between the environment of the region and the community was also expressed in the design of the House of Worship, which was inspired by the shape of the cocoa pod, a plant that grows abundantly in Colombia and was integral to the identity of the landscape and the lives and economy of the people.
  • See BWNS for pictures.
    		•  - Architects; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Agua Azul, Colombia; Architecture; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Colombia; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Norte del Cauca, Colombia; North Caucasus first local Baha’i House of Worship in Colombia
    2014 8 Sep
    201-    		 Ayatollah Hamid Masoumi Tehrani presented an illuminated calligraphic work of the words of Bahá'u'lláh to the Bahá'ís of the world. [BWNS1017; One Country 23.2] - Ayatollahs; - Calligraphy; Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Iran
    2014 Sep
    201-    		 The exclusion of Shadan Shirazi, an exemplary student who placed exceptionally well in the college entrance exams administered to students throughout Iran. The Iranian government deployed new tactics in their treatment of Bahá'í students to deny them access to higher education without raising the concern of the international community. The new procedure entailed identifying Bahá'í university applicants and then calling them in so they could quietly be confirmed as ineligible under the government's unjust policies and then be sent away without any documentation or proof that it was done because they were Bahá'ís that they were prevented from enrolling. [BWNS1021] * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Education; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Iran
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