Source: Baha’i International Community GENEVA—14 August 2019—The Baha’i International Community is deeply concerned following a series of arrests, home raids and false sentences against members of the Bahá’í community in Iran. Iranian authorities raided homes&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch More than 90 days have passed since the arrest of Behnam Eskandarian, a 25 year-old Baha’i citizen in Semnan, along with two other young Baha’is, Ardeshir Fanaian, 30, and&hellip
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Authorities have arrested Baha’i citizens in Tehran province, the latest in a string of harassment of and discrimination against the country’s largest minority religion. A prolific and aggressive media campaign against Baha’is&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Yesterday, the Court of Appeals of Eastern Azarbaijan Province issued an acquittal order for six Baha’i citizens residing in Tabriz. In June of this year,&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abolfazl Ansari, a Baha’i resident of Mehrshahr in Karaj, was arrested last night by people who identified themselves as law enforcement officers, and was taken&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRA News Agency – Ruhollah Zibaie, a Baha’i resident of Karaj, was arrested by security forces at his home today and taken to an unknown location. Failure by officials&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Moin Mohammadi Dahij, a Baha’i resident of Yazd, was sentenced by the Yazd Province Appeals Court to one year of electronic monitoring for the charge of “propaganda&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has faced harassment and intimidation for the last two years, following on from a one-year prison sentence handed down in September 2017. Authorities also banned him from joining political parties or&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The Fars Province Court of Appeals has acquitted Shiraz resident Yekta Fahandezh Sa’di and released her from prison. Yekta, a Baha’i, was sentenced in absentia to 11&hellip
Source: www.iranwire.com Hamed Rezvani, a musician and a teacher, left his home in Isfahan on December 24, 2018 and never returned. Rezvani’s family have repeatedly tried to find him, searching hospitals and the coroner’s office, and&hellip
Source: www.bbc.com Twitter has suspended several Iranian news accounts over alleged harassment of people who follow the Baha’i faith. Young Journalists Club (YJC), run by state broadcaster IRIB, state-run IRNA, and Mehr were among the Farsi-language&hellip
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Kourosh Pardis is one of the hundreds of anonymous prisoners of conscience who, because of their beliefs, live in prison rather than at home. He was&hellip
Source: iranintl.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On July 8, 2013, a mosque was opened at the site of the artistic arena in Tehran called “The Ayatollah Khamenei Mosque.” What we are discussing here is neither&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The Yazd Province Appeals Court has sentenced Moin Mohammadi, a Baha’i citizen, to one year of supervision using an electronic wrist or ankle bracelet, limited&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The Birjand Revolutionary Court has sentenced nine Baha’i citizens to a total of 54 years in prison. According to the sentence, each one of the&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Karaj Office of Public Places administration officials, by appearing in one of the Elder Care Centers that belongs to Baha’is, have been trying to remove&hellip
