Source: www.en-hrana.org The Alborz Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Payam Vali, imprisoned in Ghezel Hesar Prison, to 16 years imprisonment, pre-trial detention included. He was also banned from leaving the country for two years and sentenced…
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…
Source: finance.yahoo.com Washington, D.C., Feb. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Senate Resolution 74 (S.Res.74), condemning the recent surge in state-sponsored persecution of the Baha’i community of Iran, was introduced on February 16th in the United States Senate. It…
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…
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,…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On January 14, the Islamic Republic executed Alireza Akbari, a former deputy defense minister and an Iranian-British dual national. But Akbari was not the first dual national sent to the gallows by the…
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.…
Source: www.atlanticcouncil.org Anthony Vance According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), since Mahsa Jina Amini was killed by the so-called morality police in September 2022, demonstrations have occurred in at least 163 cities and at 144 universities in…
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian prosecutor has accused a member of the country’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority of having established “extensive” contacts with Persian-language media outlets outside Iran and spreading “propaganda” against the Islamic Republic. Payam Vali,…
Source: iranwire.com A member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority has been detained in an unknown location since his arrest three weeks ago, his family says. Nabil Moghefi, a 24-year-old resident of the northern city of…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Hami Bahadori, a Baha’i citizen living in Tehran, was transferred from Ward 209 (detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence known as Evin Prison) to…
Source: iranwire.com Iranian judicial officials have charged a Baha’i couple with “acting against national security” and “communicating with enemy governments,” amid an intensified crackdown on members of the religious minority. Pouya Amri and his wife Nafisa…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Sepehr Ziaei to five years and banned him from leaving the country for two years. The court also ordered the seizure of some of his belongings. According…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iranian intelligence and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces have arrested dozens of Baha’i citizens over the past four months. The real number of detainees is not available as security forces have…
Source: iranwire.com Pouya Sarraf, a jailed member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority, has not contacted his family for the past month, raising concerns about his health. The family has received no news about the prisoner…
Source: www.uscirf.gov In 2021, religious freedom conditions in Iran remained poor. In February, then President Hassan Rouhani signed amendments to articles 499 and 500 of Iran’s penal code imposing prison time on those guilty of “insulting…
