Source: www.en-hrana.org
HRANA – Leva Samimi, a Baha’i citizen from Juybar and the wife of Noyan Hejazi, was arrested earlier today by security forces outside Kachouei Detention Center in Sari and taken to an undisclosed location.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Samimi had been instructed to visit the detention center for a scheduled meeting with her husband. However, upon arriving at the facility, she was detained by security agents and transferred to an unknown location.
Her husband, Noyan Hejazi, also a Baha’i from Juybar, was arrested without a judicial warrant on Wednesday, June 25, at his home. He is currently being held in limbo at Kachouei Detention Center.
As of this report, no information has been made available regarding the charges against Leva Samimi or the reasons for her arrest.
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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