Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—10 March 2021—The Baha’i International Community (BIC) is appalled by the contents of an official Iranian directive which instructs local authorities in the city of Sari, in the northern province of Mazandaran, to “conduct…
Source: news.bahai.ca The court-ordered confiscation of properties from 27 Baha’i families in the farming village of Ivel, Iran, has been answered by wide-reaching solidarity from all corners of Canadian society. This outpouring of support has been…
Source: www.fidh.org Joint FIDH-LDDHI Statement The League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) has received a copy of the minutes of a “top confidential” meeting held on 21 September 2020 in the city of…
Source: www.dw.com It’s no secret that the Baha’i community in Iran faces far-reaching oppression. Now, DW has gained access to a policy paper that appears to show the extent to which the repression is state-sponsored. The…
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — A global campaign in support of the persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran has generated an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity from officials at the United Nations and the European Union, statesmen, government officials, religious figures…
Source: news.bahai.org SYDNEY — Farmers as well as agricultural scientists and policy makers from Australia, Africa and North America have joined the global outcry at the unjust confiscation of lands belonging to Bahá’í farmers in…
Source: www.cbc.ca Evan Dyer A group that includes Brian Mulroney and Jody Wilson-Raybould is denouncing confiscation of Baha’i homes The rulings of a court in a rural corner of northeastern Iran have brought together a Who’s…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Behnam Mahjoubi, a prisoner of conscience, was transferred from Evin Prison to Loghman Hospital in Tehran, on February 13, 2021. He was in a coma. Three days later doctors gave up hope for his…
Source: www.kaleme.com We urgently request that the Iranian government and the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic end the brutal confiscation of Baha’i property throughout the country and impartially attend to the grievances of the Baha’is and…
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian Baha’i citizen named Parisa Sadeghi has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of membership of the Baha’i faith, IranWire has learned. An informed source told IranWire that Branch 36 of…
Source: iranwire.com Eight Baha’i citizens living in Bandar Abbas and Shiraz have been summoned to the Bandar Abbas Penal Enforcement Unit to begin serving their sentences.The notices issued to the eight, whose sentence was upheld at…
Source: irannewswire.org The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced three members of a Bahai family to a total of seven years of prison yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the three Bahais were identified…
Source: iranwire.com A tempest of tweets is expected to sweep the Internet today and tomorrow, 22 and 23 February, in support of the Baha’is in Ivel, a village in northern Iran, whose land has been confiscated by the…
Source: www.wsj.com By Reza Afshari Followers of the Baha’i faith are persecuted at home but welcomed abroad. Israel is the last country where an Iranian raised in a Muslim family would have expected to find a…
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Bahá’ís in the Iranian farming village of Ivel. The…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti A special court in Iran’s Mazandaran province, and subsequently an appeals court, have ruled that the recent confiscations of 27 homes owned by Baha’is in the village of Ivel by the Imam…
