Source: www.sbs.com Baha’is are the most persecuted religious minority in Iran, according to the United Nations. Australia’s Baha’i community is urgently trying to raise the alarm as members of the religious minority are targeted by…

Source: www.sbs.com Baha’is are the most persecuted religious minority in Iran, according to the United Nations. Australia’s Baha’i community is urgently trying to raise the alarm as members of the religious minority are targeted by…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – Ten days have passed since the arrest of Baha’i citizens, Dorsa Dehghani and Sina Kamali Sarvestani, in Shiraz. As of today, Thursday, July 24, they…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Simultaneously with the beginning of a an emerging new wave of security and judicial pressures on Baha’i citizens in various cities of the country, the…
Source: www.en-hrana.org After three weeks, Bahai citizens Saeed Abedi and Vahid Dana are still detained in Shiraz in the Intelligence Ministry’s detention center known as No. 100. Following mass arrests and home searches of Bahai citizens…
Source: www.abc.net.au Australian and New Zealand farmers have launched a campaign in support of Baha’i families in northern Iran after a court order declared their ownership of farmland — which has been in their families for generations — to be…
Source: www.uscirf.gov USCIRF Condemns Iran’s Crackdown on Baha’i Community Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned the Iranian government’s alarming escalation of persecution targeting Baha’is in Iran. In the past month,…
Source: www.state.gov EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The constitution defines the country as an Islamic republic and specifies Twelver Ja’afari Shia Islam as the official state religion. It states all laws and regulations must be based on “Islamic criteria”…
Source: hrwf.eu Home searches and arrests in Baharestan, Isfahan Province Hrana / Sens Daily (25.04.2021) – https://cutt.ly/ebcLlVB – Thirteen Baha’i homes were raided, and eight Baha’is were arrested, in Baharestan, Isfahan, on the morning of April…
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Relatives of Vahid Dana, a Baha’i citizen detained in Shiraz, say his health is deteriorating and his life is in serious danger as a result of an outbreak…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—5 May 2021—The Baha’i International Community is concerned that a recent intensification of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran appears to be underway, signaling the implementation of a larger plan by the Iranian…
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: iranwire.com As Iranians were marking the end of the Nowruz holidays in early April, more than 25 Baha’is were summoned and arrested in the cities of Shiraz, Mashhad, Bandar Abbas, and Karaj. Others saw their…
Source: iran-hrm.com Baha’i citizens in Iran are facing a new wave of arrests and raids on their homes in several cities across the country. In the past days, dozens of Baha’i citizens have been detained or…
Source: www.state.gov Executive Summary ANNOUNCEMENT: The Department of State will release an addendum to this report in mid 2021 that expands the subsection on Women in Section 6 to include a broader range of issues related to…
Source: www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns the continued persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran. Notes from a local government meeting calling for increased control of Baha’is were leaked publicly by…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’i citizens in Bandar Abbas have recently faced increasing pressure from security forces In the latest case, six Baha’is have been subjected to an illegal judicial process and jailed just days before the…