Source: www.radiofarda.com Pooyan Mokari Translation by Iran Press Watch When nationwide protests, known as the “Zan Zendegi Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) movement, began in 2022 in Iran, Iranian authorities responded with intensified repression of various…
Source: www.hra-news.org Harana News Agency – Homayoun Khanlari, a Baha’i resident of Rasht, responded to summons to begin his two-year sentence in Lakan prison in Rasht on Thursday, Mehr 6th (28 September 2023). According to…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – On Tuesday, 12 September 2023, two business units belonging to Baha’i citizens in Isfahan were sealed by the agents of the intelligence department. At…
Source: www.gov.uk/government The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has released a statement calling on Iran to cease the persecution of the Baha’i Faith in Iran. A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said: Reports of…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On Sunday, October 1, 2023, security forces detained Baha’i citizens Vida Ahrari, Mojgan Basiri, Shokoofeh Basiri, and Jamal Ghadirzadeh in Yazd and transferred them to undisclosed locations. According to an insider source who…
Source: www.hra-news.org According to HRANA news agency, Sina Shahri went to Tabriz prison today, Wednesday September 27, 2023. This Baha’i citizen was previously summoned to serve the prison sentence. Sina Shahri was arrested on the…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Nahaleh Shahidi, a Baha’i citizen, was arrested on March 28 and taken to the Kerman Intelligence Department. After 37 days of detention in the Intelligence Department, she was transferred to Kerman…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On September 26, 2023, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence apprehended four Baha’i individuals Sahar Moheb Pour (24), Roxana Vojdani (25), Setareh Ta’ami (57), and Bahareh Ghaderi (45), in Shiraz transferring them to…
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—20 September 2023—The Baha’i International Community (BIC) highlighted Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s disregard for human rights in his speech to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, on 19 September, even as the…
Source: thebaptistpaper.org Religious freedom and human rights conditions in Iran — which already were bleak — have “sharply deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported in an update released Sept. 11. “State violence in Iran…
Source: bic.org GENEVA—15 September 2023—Amid a severe crackdown on the Iranian Baha’i community, the US House of Representatives has passed a resolution about the Baha’is in Iran with 28 congressional co-sponsors—an unprecedented number of co-sponsors…
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Zhinoos Forootan Translation by Iran Press Watch Payam Vali, a Baha’i citizen, is in prison for openly talking about violations of Baha’i rights in Iran. Outside of the prison, Adib Vali, his son,…
Source: www.iranintl.com The Baha’i community of the United States has issued a condemnation of the ongoing persecution faced by the minority group in Iran. In a statement released on Tuesday, the community expressed its concern…
Source: www.globenewswire.com Washington, DC, Sept. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On September 12, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 492, “Condemning the Government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of the Baha’i minority and its…
Source: www.rferl.org Iran’s judiciary says it has closed down 12 schools and educational centers and made several arrests in the northern Iranian city of Babol on charges of “promoting the Baha’i faith,” the country’s largest non-Muslim community.…
Source: iranwire.com A Baha’i resident of the central Iranian city of Semnan has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for alleged “propaganda activity” against the Islamic Republic and leading a group aimed at “destabilizing…
