Source: Baha’i International Community NEW YORK—23 November 2018—Members of the Baha’i community in Iran have been faced in recent weeks with a new wave of intensified persecution—including arrests, discriminatory court verdicts, and shop closures—for merely…
Source: iranwire.com Shahrzad Nazifi, an Iranian Baha’i and a women’s motocross champion and coach, was arrested on Sunday November 18 and taken to Evin Prison. After her arrest, security agents searched her house for five hours…
Source: iran-hrm.com In a wave of persecution of Baha’is in Iran, eight members of Baha’i community in Isfahan, were sentenced to a total of 42 years behind bars.They had been arrested on September 23. According…
Source: www.iran-hrm.com Six businesses in Khorramshahr owned by members of the Baha’i faith have been indefinitely shut down by the authorities after some owners closed their establishments for their religious rituals. The action was in apparent…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA–Continuing the shuttering of the businesses of Baha’is in Ahvaz who had closed their shops because of a religious holiday: it now has reached five by the last count,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The closure of Baha’i-owned businesses continues in Ahvaz and Khorramshar, in the Khuzestan province, where several Baha’i-owned businesses have been sealed by the law…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On November 5th, the Business of Two Baha’is in Abadan, Aram Azadi and Arman Azadi, was shut down and sealed by order of Judiciary Authorities,…
Source: www.iranwire.com On the morning of Wednesday, November 14, Dori Amri Esmaeelpour, a Baha’i citizen of Mashhad, presented herself at the city’s Vakilabad Prison to start serving her one-year prison sentence. In 2012 Amri had also…
Source: news.bahai.org UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly called on Iranian authorities to end ongoing human rights violations against the Baha’is in Iran. A resolution, adopted Thursday by a vote of 85 to 30, with 68…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) -Baha’i citizens of Iran have continued to face persecution this month, in the form of grave desecrations, business shutdowns, and interference by authorities in their places of employment. Meanwhile,…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Authorities have granted a November 7th to November 10th furlough period to Baha’i prisoner Azita Rafizadeh, who will attend memorial services for her father, Seyed Yadollah Rafizadeh, who…
Source: www.zeitoons.com Translation by Iran Press watch Letter from a number of progressive Muslims condemning the violation of Baha’i rights Zeitoon – A group of progressive Muslims has strongly condemned the “desecration and excavation of the…
Source: bbc.com Pejman Akbarzadeh Translation by Iran Press Watch In the 1970’s, Iran Air (known in the country as HOMA) had garnered the title of “fastest growing” among the world’s airlines. According to Encyclopedia Iranica,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The body of a Baha’i citizen, Shamsi Aghdasi Azamian, from Gilavand, a suburb of the city of Damavand, on October 24, was exhumed by unknown individuals several…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Negin Ghedamian, a Bahá’í citizen imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin Prison since 18 December 2017, has been deprived of going to a specialty…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) – Baha’i citizen Bahareh Ghaderi, who was arrested September 15th, was released Saturday, November 3rd on a bail of 200 million tomans [approximately $13,500 USD] pending completion of her…
