Source: iranwire.com Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and a prosecutor in Isfahan city have coerced Muslim neighbors and friends of 10 jailed Baha’i women into filing complaints against them, reports say. Several individuals summoned in this…
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Wounded and Ailing Baha’i Veteran of Iran-Iraq War Jailed for 31 Months
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Thirty-three years after being captured by Iraqis during the war while defending his homeland, a Baha’i citizen, Behrouz Farzandi, is once again behind bars. But time it is because of his…
Request for Retrial of Homayoun Khanlari, Baha’i Citizen, Rejected by the Supreme Court
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The request for retrial of Homayoun Khanlari, a Baha’i citizen imprisoned in Lakan prison in Rasht, was rejected by the Supreme Court. An informed…
A Husband Executed and Two Sons Jailed: The Life and Death of a Baha’i Woman
Source: iranwire.com Afagh Rahimian, the wife of Rahim Rahimian, a Baha’i executed in 1983, and mother to Keyvan and Kamran, passed away this week in Iran. Rahimian’s life was marked by the repeated persecution of…
A Report on the Latest Situation of Hami Bahadori, Baha’i Citizen in Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA news agency – Hami Bahadori, Baha’i citizen is serving his sentence in Evin prison. Despite his poor physical condition, he has been deprived of being transferred to hospital and medical treatment with…
Bi-Monthly Statistical Report: Increased Pressure on the Baha’i Community with Dozens of Arrests and Convictions
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA News Agency – Over the last 60 days, at least 40 Baha’i citizens have been arrested by security forces, and the homes of at least 66 individuals have been searched by security…
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What Iran Jail Hell Taught Me About Freedom of Speech
Source: www.standard.co.uk EXCLUSIVE: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shared a bunk with one of Evin prison’s pillars of resilience. She tells the Standard of what she learned about Iran’s state-sponsored cancel culture and repression On October 6, the Nobel prize…
Baha’i in Shirvan Detained Amid Ongoing Persecution
Source: iranwire.com Security officials in Iran detained on Monday a Baha’i citizen, Masoud Mahmoudi, in the northeastern city of Shirvan. Officials from the Intelligence Department reportedly entered Mahmoudi’s house and confiscated electronic devices, including mobile…
Baha’i Citizen Zabihi Moghadam Recevies Eight Years in Prison
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Mashhad Revolutionary Court has handed down an eight-year prison sentence to Sirus Zabihi Moghadam, a Baha’i resident of Mashhad. Zabihi Moghadam was convicted of seven years for “membership in anti-regime groups” and…
Fourteen Baha’i Citizens Receive Sentences and Fines in Mazandaran
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Mazandaran Court of Appeal has handed down sentences and fines to 14 Baha’i citizens. On November 2, verdicts were delivered, with Bita Haghighi and Sanaz Hekmat Shoar sentenced to three years in…
Shiraz; Condemning Three Baha’i Citizens to Imprisonment, Fines, and Social Deprivation
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Hassan Salehi, Vahid Dana and Saeed Abedi, Baha’i citizens, were each sentenced to six years, one month and seventeen days of imprisonment under the…
Appeal Court; Soosan Badavam, a Baha’i Citizen, Was Sentenced to Imprisonment and Social Deprivations
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The sentence of four years, one month and seventeen days of imprisonment and social deprivations of Baha’i citizen Soosan Badavam was confirmed by the…
Eight Mashhad Baha’i Women Sentenced to 32 Years in Prison in Latest Crackdown
Source: iranwire.com The Mashhad Revolutionary Court has sentenced eight Baha’i women to a combined 32 years and 4 months in prison, as also reported by IranWire yesterday, as concerns grow over the intensifying harassment and repression…
Twenty-Six Baha’is in Iran Sentenced to 126 Years in Prison as 10 More Baha’i Women Arrested in Isfahan, and 3 in Yazd
Source: bic.org GENEVA—26 October 2023—In an escalating pattern of persecution against the Baha’is in Iran, 36 more incidents targeting the community have taken place in recent days, affecting mostly women. Ten women, most of them…
26 Baha’is in Iran Sentenced to 126 Years in Jail as 13 Arrested—Mostly Women
Source: iranwire.com In what the Baha’i International Community is calling an “escalating pattern of persecution against the Baha’is in Iran,” 39 more incidents targeting the community have been reported in recent days, affecting mostly women.…
14 Baha’i Adherents Were Collectively Sentenced to 69 Years and 8 Months of Imprisonment
Source: hengaw.net A number of fourteen Baha’i members: Noushin Mesbah, Samira Ebrahimi, Saba Sefidi, Saeedeh Khozouei, Nasim Sabeti, Azita Foroughi, Roya Ghane Ezz Abadi, Soheila Ahmadi, Arsalan Yazdi, Iraj Shakour, Pedram Abhar, Hossein Salehi, Vahid…