Source: www.en-hrana.org
HRANA– Mehran Dastournezhad, a Baha’i citizen, has been held in detention by security forces in Marvdasht for eight days, with no information available about his fate.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Mehran Dastournezhad was arrested in Marvdasht on June 28. His daughter reported that Mr. Dastournezhad’s arrest was carried out violently and accompanied by the confiscation of his personal belongings. According to her, eight days after the arrest, he has still not contacted his family.
As of the time of this report, no information has been obtained regarding his place of detention, the reasons for his arrest, or the charges brought against him.
Over the past decade, the Iranian Bahá’í community has been disproportionately targeted by Iran’s security forces and judiciary—more than any other minority group. In the past three years, an average of 72 percent of the reports on religious rights violations collected by HRANA have documented the Iranian regime’s repression of the Bahá’í community.
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