Source: www.iranintl.com By Maryam Sinaee Informed sources tell Iran International that at least 90 Iranian Baha’i students have been barred from universities this year due to a secret government policy. The United States-based Human Rights Activists’ News…
Source: www.ohchr.org GENEVA (22 August 2022) – UN experts* today called on Iranian authorities to stop persecution and harassment of religious minorities and end the use of religion to curtail the exercise of fundamental rights. “We are…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—19 August 2022The Baha’i International Community has received news of a shocking and outrageous new propaganda ploy to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production filmed in a kindergarten. On 31…
Source: iranwire.com IranWire can report that now 128 Baha’is in Iran have now suffered specific acts of persecution in the past two weeks, with that number increasing almost every day. Baha’is have been variously imprisoned, arrested,…
Source: iranwire.com After the violent destruction and confiscation of Baha’i properties in villages of Roshankouh earlier this month, and previously in Ivel, both in the northern province of Mazandaran, it was reported that a court order has been…
Source: www.thejournal.ie Brendan McNamara says we cannot turn a blind eye while minorities are persecuted for their faith. THE ONGOING WAR on our continent is devastating indeed. Millions are displaced – many have lost their lives.…
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA has identified 60 Baha’is this year who sat for the nationwide university entrance exam and were banned from entering the university under the pretext of “document deficiencies.” The individuals who complained to the…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On August 2, 2022, the one-year sentences of nine Baha’is were carried out in the form of home detention using an electronic monitoring device. Previously, the Revolutionary Court of Shahriar had sentenced each of…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Five days after tensions and the arrests of Baha’i activists, Afif Naimi is in detention and his whereabouts are unknown. Naimi suffers from heart disease which raises concerns about his condition. According to HRANA,…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Two detained Baha’is Niloofar Hosseini and Elhan Hashemi were released on bail in Shiraz, while three others, Misagh Manavipour, Hanan Hashemi and Bahyeh Manavipour are still in custody. On July 19, 2022, intelligence agents…
Source: www.en-hrana.org In a phone call, Imprisoned Baha’i individual Hanan Hashemi informed her family that she is under pressure by the interrogators to make a forced confession. She is currently at a detention facility belonging to…
Source: eaworldview.com UPDATE, AUG 10: More than 70 civil and human rights activists, university professors, and artists from Iran and abroad have issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s treatment of the Baha’i community, including the detention, harassment, and…
Source: thetimes.co.uk The authorities in Iran have launched a month-long crackdown on members of the Bahai faith, the country’s biggest minority religion, accusing believers of being spies for Israel. Despite a media blackout, pictures have been…
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk The Baha’i religious minority in Iran is facing its worst crackdown in decades after Tehran carried out a flurry of home demolitions and arrested key leaders. Several hundred Iranian agents descended this week on…
Source: iranhumanrights.org August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said…
Source: www.adl.org New York, NY, August 5, 2022 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities released the following statement in response to the intensified campaign by the Iranian regime targeting Iran’s Baha’i minority: “We condemn…
