Source: www.iranintl.com In response to Iran’s foreign minister’s denials of rape in prisons, an imprisoned female activist announced she is ready to testify against the government. In a letter sent to Radio Farda, the Persian Service…
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Iran Issues More Jail Terms Against Baha’is in Iran – Including a Third Former Leader
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 February 2023—This week, two Baha’i women in Iran, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, have entered the fourth month of unjust 10-year jail terms in Evin Prison. Together with five others, they were members…
Habibollah Azizi: A Baha’i and the Islamic Republic’s First Dual National Murder
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On January 14, the Islamic Republic executed Alireza Akbari, a former deputy defense minister and an Iranian-British dual national. But Akbari was not the first dual national sent to the gallows by the…
Iran’s Raisi: A 1980s Killer of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti President Ebrahim Raisi, a longtime establishment figure in the Islamic Republic who has been Iran’s president since August 2021, was before his election a senior judiciary official for more than 40 years.…
Hami Bahadori, Baha’i Citizen, Transferred to “Greater Tehran” Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Hami Bahadori, a Baha’i citizen living in Tehran, was transferred from Ward 209 (detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence known as Evin Prison) to…
Baha’i Citizen Sepehr Ziaei Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Sepehr Ziaei to five years and banned him from leaving the country for two years. The court also ordered the seizure of some of his belongings. According…
Stepped-Up Crackdown On Iranian Baha’is: Who Are The Latest Victims?
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iranian intelligence and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces have arrested dozens of Baha’i citizens over the past four months. The real number of detainees is not available as security forces have…
Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, Baha’i citizen Continued Detainment in Qarchak Varamin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, Baha’i citizen, continues to be detained in Qarchak Varamin prison. HRANA news agency – Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, a Baha’i citizen, who was arrested Saturday, September 24,…
Baha’i Citizen Badi Khazei Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Badi Khazei to six years in prison. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Baha’i citizen Badi Khazei was sentenced to six years in…
Iran Urged To Free Baha’i Poet “Unjustly” Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
Source: iranwire.com The Australian chapter of PEN International, a freedom of expression group, has strongly condemned the detention of award-winning Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she is being held in solitary confinement,…
Remembering a Baha’i Scientist Executed for Her Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On December 27, 1981, eight Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the…
Jailed Baha’i Couple Barred from Seeing Each Other
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Majid Tavakoli, a well-known student rights activist, was beaten about a month ago while being held in Ward 241 of Evin Prison. News of this beating went viral on social media at…
Baha’i Citizen Farbod Alavi Arrested
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 4, 2022, security forces arrested Baha’i citizen Farbod Alavi and jailed him in Evin Prison. The agents searched his house and confiscated some of his belongings. According to HRANA, the news agency…
The Islamic Republic’s History of Massacring Kurdish Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Slaughter has been the Iranian government’s only response to protest over the past 43 years. And even as the September 16 death of the 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of…
Iran Using Protests To Further Persecute Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Many members of the Baha’i religious minority have been arrested across Iran in recent weeks amid unabated nationwide protests. Some were detained at their homes while others were rounded up with other…
Iranian Government Detains Dozens More Baha’is During National Crisis
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 November 2022—Twenty-nine Baha’is in Iran have been arrested since September, the latest incidents in a crackdown that began in late July, even as the Iranian government faces unprecedented scrutiny around the world over…
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