Source: iranwire.com IranWire understands that during the afternoon of 31 August, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Mazandaran province raided the home of a Baha’i citizen, Mojir Samimi, in Ghaemshahr, and arrested eleven young Baha’is &hellip
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA – 1 September 2022 – Fourteen Baha’is including thirteen youth were arrested yesterday in the northern Iranian city of Qaemshahr, Mazandaran province, and detained at the Sari intelligence office. Most of the arrests occurred at&hellip
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — Government officials, international and national media outlets and dozens of prominent civil society actors and individuals have rushed to the defense of the Bahá’ís of Iran, this month, with an&hellip
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK – 23 August 2022 – Government officials, international and national media outlets and dozens of prominent civil society actors and individuals have rushed to the defense of the Baha’is of Iran, this month, with&hellip
Source: www.amnesty.org Iran’s persecuted Baha’i minority are suffering escalated attacks on their human rights. Since 31 July 2022, the authorities have raided dozens of Baha’i houses, detained at least 30 people, and subjected many more to&hellip
Source: iranwire.com The Baha’i International Community (BIC) today reported news of an effort to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production, filmed in a kindergarten, designed to produce proaganda footage that would show&hellip
Source: news.un.org Authorities in Iran must stop the persecution and harassment of religious minorities, a group of independent UN human rights experts said in a statement issued on Monday expressing alarm over the escalation in&hellip
Source: www.iranintl.com By Maryam Sinaee Informed sources tell Iran International that at least 90 Iranian Baha’i students have been barred from universities this year due to a secret government policy. The United States-based Human Rights Activists’ News&hellip
Source: www.ohchr.org GENEVA (22 August 2022) – UN experts* today called on Iranian authorities to stop persecution and harassment of religious minorities and end the use of religion to curtail the exercise of fundamental rights. “We are&hellip
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—19 August 2022The Baha’i International Community has received news of a shocking and outrageous new propaganda ploy to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production filmed in a kindergarten. On 31&hellip
Source: iranwire.com IranWire can report that now 128 Baha’is in Iran have now suffered specific acts of persecution in the past two weeks, with that number increasing almost every day. Baha’is have been variously imprisoned, arrested,&hellip
Source: iranwire.com After the violent destruction and confiscation of Baha’i properties in villages of Roshankouh earlier this month, and previously in Ivel, both in the northern province of Mazandaran, it was reported that a court order has been&hellip
Source: www.thejournal.ie Brendan McNamara says we cannot turn a blind eye while minorities are persecuted for their faith. THE ONGOING WAR on our continent is devastating indeed. Millions are displaced – many have lost their lives.&hellip
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA has identified 60 Baha’is this year who sat for the nationwide university entrance exam and were banned from entering the university under the pretext of “document deficiencies.” The individuals who complained to the&hellip
Source: www.en-hrana.org On August 2, 2022, the one-year sentences of nine Baha’is were carried out in the form of home detention using an electronic monitoring device. Previously, the Revolutionary Court of Shahriar had sentenced each of&hellip
Source: www.en-hrana.org Five days after tensions and the arrests of Baha’i activists, Afif Naimi is in detention and his whereabouts are unknown. Naimi suffers from heart disease which raises concerns about his condition. According to HRANA,&hellip
