Source: observatoryihr.org Shrutika Gandhi Iran – a country notorious for silencing dissidents, persecuting religious minorities and carrying out other human rights violations – has now turned to Biometric technology to widen the scale of its surveillance operations and…
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.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Moin Mohammadi, a Baha’i citizen from Yazd, was summoned to the Judgment Enforcement Unit of the Yazd Revolutionary Court on Thursday, May 6th, 2021 to…
Source: https://www.en-hrana.org On May 20, Baha’i citizens Sanaz Rasteh and Firoozeh Rastinejad were released on bail from Dolatabad Prison in Isfahan after their arrest in Baharestan. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists,…
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.independent.co.uk The move comes amid an apparent fresh crackdown on members of the minority faith, reports Borzou Daragahi Iranian authorities appear to be stepping up a campaign of repression against an embattled religious minority, allegedly…
Source: theconversation.com By Kyle Matthews The eyes of the world have once again turned to Iran as the prospects of renegotiating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal appear to have improved with the election of U.S. President…
Source: www.avatoday.net Atsa Ahmadaei-Rafsanjani, an Iranian citizen from the minority Baháʼí Faith, is convicted on multiple charges and has given an 8-year prison sentence in total by Iranian Revolutionary Court, Baháʼí activists told Avatoday. Ahmadaei-Rafsanjani was charged…
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: iranintl.com The United States State Department Wednesday released its 2020 report on international religious freedom in which Iran is named among the worst abusers of religious rights. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ranked Iran alongside…
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: irannewswire.org Two Iranian Bahais were detained in their homes in Shiraz southwestern Iran yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, they were identified as Vahid Dana and Saeed Abedi. Intelligence agents searched their homes and…
