Source: iranwire.com As Iran entered a new year, Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on the nation’s Baha’i people. Iranian citizens continue to face mounting problems, including economic crisis, political turmoil that is likely to increase as the presidential election…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ Despite the passage of 10 days the following Baha’i citizens living in Shiraz are still being held in solitary confinement: Saeed Ettehad, Qassem Masoumi, Siamak Honarvar, Soroush…
Source: iranintl.com Iranian security agents have arrested 13 members of the banned Baha’i faith in Baharestan township in Esfahan on Sunday, searching their homes and confiscating personal belonging, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, HRANA based…
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA – Manijeh Azamian, a Baha’i citizen living in Babol, was arrested by the city’s intelligence service on Tuesday, April 15, and released on bail a day later. Four days before her arrest, security…
Source: irannewswire.org Seven Iranian Bahais were detained on the evening of April 6 in the south-central city of Shiraz. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the Bahais were identified as Saeed Etehad, Ghasem Masoumi, Siamak Henrour,…
Source: www.abc.net.au By Tracey Shelton Nima Moradi says he is “lucky and thankful” to be raising his two children in Australia. Growing up in Iran as a child of the Baha’i faith, Mr Moradi was often…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – A Baha’i couple living in Villashahr, Isfahan, have been taken into custody. Mojdeh Eghterafi and her husband, Hooshmand Talebi were arrested on Sunday, August 23rd,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Liza Tebyanian, a Baha’i citizen living in Karaj, was arrested by security forces on the evening of Saturday, August 16, 2020, and taken to an…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights in Iran, three Baha’i citizens living in the city of Rafsanjan were arrested by security forces and taken to an…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Amin Zolfaghari, a Baha’i citizen living in Yazd, was arrested by security forces on Thursday, May 21st, and transferred to the city’s prison. Mr. Zolfaghari’s detention is…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA news agency, the news organ of the Iranian Association of Human Rights Activists, on Saturday, June 1, 2020, Mitra Bandi Amir-Abadi and Hiva Yazdan Mehdi-Abadi,…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a news release from IranWire, on Thursday, 23 January, a Baha’i couple living in Qaemshahr, Saman Shirvani and Faraneh Mansouri, who had been visiting friends,…
Source: www.kampain.info Firoozeh Shafizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, was arrested by security forces after returning to Iran in a village in Talesh. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Firoozeh Shafizadeh was…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Vahda Silani, a Baha’i resident of Kerman, was arrested at her home by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on Sunday, January 9, and taken to an…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA– According to HRANA (the news agency of Human Rights Activists of Iran), on Friday, November 29, at least nine Baha’i citizens living in Baharestan, Isfahan, were arrested by…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Mitra Forsatipour, a Baha’i resident of Gilavand, a suburb ofm the City of Damavand, was arrested Monday by Intelligence officials at her residence and transferred to the…
