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…
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Iran Arrests Another Baha’i Community Leader
Source: www.iranintl.com Afif Naimi, one of the former leaders of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i community, was arrested by security forces on Saturday. Baha’i activists say Naimi was spending a holiday with his family and relatives in…
Wave of Home Searches against Kerman Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Iranian intelligence forces have launched a wave of house searches against Baha’is in the southern city of Kerman in an apparent escalation of recent crackdowns by the authorities on the Baha’i community. Kerman…
Iran Issues More Jail Terms Against Baha’is in Iran – Including a Third Former Leader
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 February 2023—This week, two Baha’i women in Iran, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, have entered the fourth month of unjust 10-year jail terms in Evin Prison. Together with five others, they were members…
Jailed Baha’i Refuses to Confess Against Himself for Release
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…
Eleven Baha’i Citizens Sentenced to a Total of 36 Years in Prison
Source: www.iranwire.com The Karaj Revolutionary Court sentenced eleven Baha’i citizens, out of 13 defendants of one legal case, to over 36 years and additional punishments. According to these verdicts, Afif Na’imi, Saman OstovarKamyar Habibi, Rameleh Tirgarnejad,…
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.…
Iran: Writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet sentenced to ten years in prison
Source: pen-international.org PEN International is outraged by reports that Baha’i writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet was sentenced to ten years in prison. PEN International calls on the Iranian authorities to quash the conviction and…
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…
Rights Experts Urge Iran to End ‘Systematic Persecution’ of Religious Minorities
Source: news.un.org Authorities in Iran must stop the persecution and harassment of religious minorities, a group of independent UN human rights experts said in a statement issued on Monday expressing alarm over the escalation in…
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