Source: www.iranwire.com A member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority has refused to sign a false confession in exchange for his release, IranWire understands. Payam Vali, a Baha’i citizen who has been held in jail for…
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Iran’s Raisi: A 1980s Killer of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti President Ebrahim Raisi, a longtime establishment figure in the Islamic Republic who has been Iran’s president since August 2021, was before his election a senior judiciary official for more than 40 years.…
The Islamic Republic Is on the Path to Committing a Mass Atrocity. The World Should Pay Attention.
Source: www.atlanticcouncil.org Anthony Vance According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), since Mahsa Jina Amini was killed by the so-called morality police in September 2022, demonstrations have occurred in at least 163 cities and at 144 universities in…
Increasing Pressure and Continuing Arrest of Baha’is; Isfahan Orchestra Musician Arrested
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Concurrent with the widespread arrest of citizens in connection with nationwide protests in Iran, the pressure on Baha’i citizens and their arrests has intensified. In the latest incident, a…
Iran Urged To Free Baha’i Poet “Unjustly” Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
Source: iranwire.com The Australian chapter of PEN International, a freedom of expression group, has strongly condemned the detention of award-winning Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she is being held in solitary confinement,…
Iran’s Nod to International Human Rights Day Was More Repression of Its People
Source: www.thejournal.ie Brendan McNamara TIME MAGAZINE HAS named the women of Iran as their 2022 “Heroes of the Year” and the international community has rightly recognised the bravery and heroism of all Iranians, especially women, who are publicly…
Iranian Government Detains Dozens More Baha’is During National Crisis
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 November 2022—Twenty-nine Baha’is in Iran have been arrested since September, the latest incidents in a crackdown that began in late July, even as the Iranian government faces unprecedented scrutiny around the world over…
Baha’is Arrested for Instigating “Sedition” and Protests
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Baha’i faith, one of the world’s youngest religions, was founded in Iran in the nineteenth century, but its followers have long faced persecution in the country, especially since the establishment of…
Baha’is Citizen Enayatollah Naeimi Arrested
Source: www.en-hrana.org Last Wednesday, September 28, security forces arrested Baha’is citizen Enayatollah Naeimi in Isfahan. The agents searched his house, workplace and garden in the Isfahan suburbs. Enayatollah is a brother of Afif Neimi who was a…
‘the World Is Watching’: Australian Daughter of Iranian Baha’i in Prison Pleads for Her Release
Source: www.abc.net.au By Nassim Khadem When Negar Sabet awakes after a restless night in Sydney, she agonises about her elderly mother, Mahvash Sabet, who has been locked up in Iran’s notorious Evin prison since the end…
Faith: Hatred Inflicted on Baha’is in Iran Needs Our Attention
Source: www.statesman.com By Ajit Giani Special to the American-Statesman History is a stark reminder that much evil is perpetrated in darkness when we either don’t know or don’t care to know about the challenges and difficulties…
Three Weeks in Iran: 200 Incidents of Baháʼís Being Targeted as International Community Roundly Condemns “Sweeping Crackdown”
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…
Three Weeks in Iran: 200 Incidents of Baha’is Being Targeted as International Community Roundly Condemns “Sweeping Crackdown”
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…
Iran: UN Experts Alarmed by Escalating Religious Persecution
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…
Historian: Why the Iranian Government Insists the Baha’is are not a Religion
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,…
Opinion: “You can’t see the sorrow after lights out…” – Iran’s persecution of Bahá’ís
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.…