Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti A recent statement by the Baha’i International Community has confirmed that the Iranian government is using “brutal” new repressive and coercive measures against Iran’s Baha’is. The tactics have aimed to instill…
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Iran Mounting Persecution Of Baha’is Through Arbitrary Arrests
Source: www.iranintl.com Followers of the Baha’i faith continue to be systematically persecuted by the Iranian authorities, in cases uncovered by Iran International. One adherent of the religion, Nahaleh Shahidi, is still in jail after being…
Iran: Nobel Prize Winner Mohammadi Begins New Hunger Strike
Source: www.dw.com Narges Mohammedi, a human rights activist, has been behind bars in Tehran since 2021. She will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday in absentia, and will be represented by her husband…
14 Female Prisoners Express Sympathy for the Family of the Deceased Baha’i and Praising “Her Fight Against Injustice”
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Following the death of Afagh Khosravi Zand (Rahimian) (wife of one of the Baha’is executed in 1984), 14 female political prisoners in Evin expressed sympathy with her family…
“A Change in Tactics”: Baha’i International Community details “brutal” persecution in Iran
Source: www.bic.org The Iranian government is using intensified and brutal new tactics to persecute the Baha’i religious minority in Iran, according to a new statement of the Baha’i International Community (BIC) released today, with a view to…
Three Baha’i Citizens Receive Prison Sentences and Social Sanctions in Sari
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Sari Revolutionary Court has recently issued a 33-month prison sentence along with additional penalties to Baha’i citizen Saha Sabeti. Two other Baha’i individuals, Behrooz Rahmani and Sanaz Alizadeh Rooshankoohi, have also been…
Six Baha’i Women Detained in Hamedan Held in Solitary Confinement, Interrogated, Deprived of “In-Person Visitation”
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Of the six detained women, Neda Mohebi has three children, ages three, six and 11, and Atefeh Zahedi has two daughters. Radio Farda has been informed that more…
Detained Baha’i Mother Remains Missing 24 Days After Arrest
Source: iranwire.com Over 24 days after the arrest of Iren Rahmani, a Baha’i citizen and mother of two, her family still has no information on her whereabouts or the charges against her. Her family, particularly…
Baha’i Citizen Rouya Malakooti Receives Six-Year, Eight-Month Sentence
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Mashhad Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Hadi Mansouri, has handed down a six-year, eight-month prison sentence to Baha’i Citizen Rouya Malakooti. The verdict includes a six-year term for “forming groups to…
Baha’i Nooshin Mesbah Receives Reduced Sentence of One Year on Appeal
Source: www.en-hrana.org In a recent development, the Court of Appeal of Razavi Khorasan Province has handed down a revised sentence to Baha’i citizen Nooshin Mesbah, a resident of Mashhad, reducing her imprisonment term to one…
Jailed Baha’i Woman Denied Phone Calls from Evin Prison
Source: iranwire.com Iranian prison authorities have denied the Baha’i prisoner Mahvash Shahriari Sabet access to phone calls after she published an open letter from inside Evin prison. “It is the ultimate injustice that my mother is being…
Baha’i Woman Sentenced to Almost Four Years in Prison
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian Revolutionary Court has sentenced Shohreh Salekian, a Baha’i citizen living in Mashhad, to three years and eight months in prison. Salekian was charged with “membership in a group with the aim…
Iran’s Security Agencies Coerce Muslims to Denounce Jailed Baha’i Women
Source: iranwire.com Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and a prosecutor in Isfahan city have coerced Muslim neighbors and friends of 10 jailed Baha’i women into filing complaints against them, reports say. Several individuals summoned in this…
Wounded and Ailing Baha’i Veteran of Iran-Iraq War Jailed for 31 Months
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Thirty-three years after being captured by Iraqis during the war while defending his homeland, a Baha’i citizen, Behrouz Farzandi, is once again behind bars. But time it is because of his…
Request for Retrial of Homayoun Khanlari, Baha’i Citizen, Rejected by the Supreme Court
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The request for retrial of Homayoun Khanlari, a Baha’i citizen imprisoned in Lakan prison in Rasht, was rejected by the Supreme Court. An informed…
Baha’i Asylum Seeker Faces Imminent Deportation from Türkiye to Iran
Source: iranwire.com Fareed Houshmand, an Iranian Baha’i who has been a refugee in Türkiye for the past seven years, faces a precarious situation as his asylum application has been rejected by a Turkish court. He…
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