Source: iranintl.com The Baha’i International Community in a statement Thursday has expressed concern over intensification of official “hate speech” in recent months against the religious minority in Iran. The Baha’is, a religious group formed in the…
Source: iranwire.com The Iranian government must be “held accountable” for its 40-year campaign of hate speech against the Baha’i community in Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, according to a new statement by the Baha’i International Community (BIC) in…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Baha’i citizen Sina Kamali Sarvestani is still being held in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz 24 days after his arrest, and his family has expressed growing concern over his condition. According to HRANA, the news agency of…
Source: www.en-hrana.org After approving an appeal hearing, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran upheld an eight year prison sentence for Baha’i citizen and women’s motocross champion Shahrzad Nazifi. According to HRANA, the news agency of…
Source: opa.bahai.ca Iran’s state-sponsored campaign of hatred against the Bahá’í Faith has been on the rise across all media platforms, including the web, social media, radio, newspapers, and television. History shows that persecution can escalate to…
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.rudaw.net Hannah Lynch ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — On Tehran’s southeastern edge is a plot of land called Khavaran. The spot used to be outside of the city, but urban sprawl is inching closer every year.…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On June 14, Baha’i citizens Sina Kamali Sarvestani and Dorsa Dehghani were separately arrested by security forces and taken to an unknown location. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, officers…
Source: news.yahoo.com Stuart WILLIAMS Holakou Rahmanian, born into a Bahai family in Tehran in 1989, grew up like any Iranian child, shone at school and passed his exams with flying colours. But then he applied to…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Women’s motocross champion and Baha’i citizen Shahrzad Nazifi was recently sentenced to 8 years in prison, 3 months’ probation in a center for mental handicaps, and a 2-year ban from leaving the country.…
Source: iran-hrm.com An appeals court in Iran has sentenced four Iranian Baha’is to 12 years of prison solely for being members of their religious community. Branch 36 of the Tehran Provincial Court of Appeals upheld the…
Source: iran-hrm.com A revolutionary court in Iran has sentenced six Baha’i citizens to a total of 73 years and 6 months in prison. Borhan Esmaili, Maryam Bashir, Faranak Sheikhi, Hayedeh Ram, Minoo Bashir and Derna Esmaili,…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Baha’i citizens Mahvash Adalati Aliabadi, Sepideh Keshavarz, and Farid Ismaili, residents of Tehran, were sentenced by Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals to a total of 10 years and 9 months in…
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…
