Source: iranwire.com Three days ago Anisa Fanaeian, an Iranian Baha’i woman in Semnan, was arrested by Islamic Republic security forces and taken to prison. Fanaeian had been sentenced in March 2024 to seven years in…
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Iran Escalates Persecution of Baha’i Citizens: Women Bear the Brunt
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Islamic Republic intensified its persecution of Baha’i citizens over the past Persian year, with women facing particularly harsh treatment. Official data reveals that 246 Baha’is – 142 women and 104…
Iranian Rights Groups Confront Persecution of Baha’is at Un Session
Source: www.iranintl.com Iranian civil society organizations convened in Geneva on Monday to present evidence of human rights violations in Iran with a focus on the persecution of Baha’is. The session, held during the UN Human…
Iran’s government condemned at United Nations for blatantly denying Baha’i cemetery desecrations
Source: BIC Geneva—11 March 2025—Iran’s government was rebuked by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Professor Nazila Ghanea, who in strong remarks said the Islamic Republic could not “hide” its…
Baha’i International Community-Iran News Bulletin #09-2025
Source: iranbahaipersecution.bic.org News Bulletin #09-25 Iran 21 FEBRUARY – 07 MARCH 2025 [This bulletin documents only the most significant acts of persecution and human rights abuses which the BIC has noted during the reporting period. …
Movement Restrictions with Electronic Ankle Monitoring; Tahereh Nowrouzi’s Sentence Enforced
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today, Saturday, the sentence of Tahereh Nowrouzi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Shiraz, was enforced. She will serve her sentence with movement restrictions outside…
Execution of Prison Sentences: Baha’i Citizens Nazila Khanipour and Vesal Heravi, Transferred to Lakan Prison in Rasht
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today, Thursday, February 20, Nazila Khanipour and her son Vesal Heravi, two Baha’i citizens, were transferred to Lakan Prison in Rasht to serve their…
Baha’i Citizen Erfan Eshraghi Arrested in Karaj
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA News Agency – Yesterday, February 18, 2025, Erfan Eshraghi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Golshahr, Karaj, was arrested by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location. A source close to Mr.…
Homes of 14 Baha’i Citizens Searched, Two Arrested
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA News Agency – Security forces recently searched the homes of 14 Baha’i citizens in Karaj and Qazvin, arresting two of them—Fariba Misaghi in Qazvin and Erfan Eshraghi in Karaj. According to HRANA,…
Baha’i Man Begins Prison Term in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Behnam Momtazi, a member of the Baha’i religious minority, was taken into custody on Monday in Qazvin, Iran, to begin serving a two-year and one-day prison sentence. Momtazi was arrested after reporting to…
Two Baha’i Women Were Summoned to Pay a Fine
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Hrana News Agency, the news outlet of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, Samira Shakib and Mojdeh Bahamin, Baha’i citizens residing in Baharestan, Isfahan, have been…
125 European parliamentarians join UN experts to condemn escalating persecution of Iranian Baha’i women
Source: www.bic.org Members of European and national parliaments highlight systematic discrimination against women from Baha’i religious minority amid broader human rights violations Brussels—30 January 2025—One hundred and twenty-five Members of European Parliament and national parliaments…
UN Member States raise concern about Baha’is during Iran’s Universal Periodic Review
Source: www.bic.org Geneva—27 January 2025—Iran recently underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR)—a UN human rights review—at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in Geneva. A significant number of UN Member States raised concerns…
Targeted for Belief: Sirus Zabihi’s Lifelong Struggle as a Baha’i in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Sirus Zabihi-Moghadam, a 64-year-old member of the Baha’i religious minority, was transferred to Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad last week to begin serving a seven-year sentence. This is not his first time…
Two days before the UN reviews Iran’s human rights record, the Iranian government detains 11 Baha’i women for their faith
Source: www.bic.org Geneva—22 January 2025—The Islamic Republic of Iran’s latest outrage against the Baha’is of Iran occurred early this morning when security forces arrested eleven Baha’i women, without arrest warrants or prior notification, in a…
UN Experts Condemn Rising Persecution of Baha’i Women in Iran
Source: iranwire.com United Nations human rights experts have expressed concern over the increasing systematic persecution of women from Iran’s Baha’i religious minority. The experts report that Baha’i women, who make up two-thirds of all Baha’i…
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