Source: www.zeitoons.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Zeitoun- More than a hundred political and civil activists issued a statement condemning the “new wave of arrests against Baha’is and their deprivation of basic human and civil…

Source: www.zeitoons.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Zeitoun- More than a hundred political and civil activists issued a statement condemning the “new wave of arrests against Baha’is and their deprivation of basic human and civil…
Source: www.bic.org Farmlands belonging to Baha’i families in the village of Ahmadabad, a lush and fertile agricultural community in Mazandaran province, were forcibly seized this week by Iranian officials GENEVA—4 January 2024—Farmlands, rice paddies and…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On January 1, 2024, police agents and forest rangers carried out the confiscation of approximately 60 hectares of Baha’i-owned land in the Ahmadabad Village, adjacent to Sari in Mazandaran Province. Acting on the…
Source: www.en-hrana.org In a recent ruling, the Court of Appeal in Razavi Khorasan Province upheld the three-year, eight-month sentences for Baha’i citizens Nasim Sabeti, Azita Foroughi, Rouya Ghane Ezabadi, and Soheila Ahmadi. The lawyer has…
Source: www.iranintl.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Tehran University Medical School has refused to receive the body of Afagh Khosravizand, a deceased Baha’i citizen. This is in contrast to their previous agreement to honor the…
Source: www.bic.org The latest and 36th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution expressing serious concern over a broad range of human rights violations including the situation of Baha’is in Iran and other religious minorities, and calling on…
Source: hengaw.net Shiva Khalili, a Baha’i adherent residing in Babol (Mazandaran province), has been taken into custody and transported to Babol central prison in order to undergo the one-year imprisonment verdict. According to a report…
Source: globalnews.ca By Negar Mojtahedi It’s been 10 weeks since the Israel-Hamas war began and in that time, Iran has seen an upsurge in atrocities, particularly against minorities. Some Iranian-Canadians believe the regime is ramping up brutality…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Revolutionary Court in Gorgan, Golestan Province, has sentenced Baha’i citizen Nafisa Saadat Yar to one year of imprisonment and imposed social deprivations. As of the ruling issued on November 20, 2023, Sa’adat Yar…
Source: iranwire.com Security agents detained a Baha’i woman in the streets of Shiraz on December 18, as the authorities intensified their crackdown on members of the religious minority. The officers took Yekta Fohandej to her…
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian court has sentenced a Baha’i citizen, Hourieh Mohseni, to three years’ imprisonment and an additional year of suspended time. The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of the northeastern city of…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today, Friday December 8th, Babak Zainli, Sohba Taif, Shervin Shabrokh, Iren Rahmani, Foad Taifi and Reza Yazdi, Baha’i citizens living in Karaj, were transferred…
Source: iranwire.com Behrouz Farzandi, 57, a former prisoner of war during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and a member of the persecuted Baha’i religious minority who is currently in jail, has been barred from shopping at…
Source: globalvoices.org By Fred Petrossian Over the last 45 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has weaponized textbooks, religious debates, movies and series, city walls, and even cemeteries to impose cultural violence and institutionalize its…
Source: Golrokh Irani Translation by Iran Press Watch In protest against the government’s devastating treatment of Baha’is in Iran, we are going on a three-day hunger strike for the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December…
Source: iranwire.com By ROGHAYEH REZAEI Prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and other Iranian activists marked International Human Rights Day with renewed calls for more freedoms, equality and justice in the country, despite the Islamic…