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…
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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…
A Husband Executed and Two Sons Jailed: The Life and Death of a Baha’i Woman
Source: iranwire.com Afagh Rahimian, the wife of Rahim Rahimian, a Baha’i executed in 1983, and mother to Keyvan and Kamran, passed away this week in Iran. Rahimian’s life was marked by the repeated persecution of…
Fariba Kamalabadi’s Letter From Evin Prison in Response to the Wave of Suppression of Baha’is, “Our Story Is One”
Source: twitter.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On the morning of Wednesday, November 8th, during a phone call with my husband, I found the opportunity to talk with my son-in-law’s mother, Mrs. Shoughangiz Sorourian, who…
A Report on the Latest Situation of Hami Bahadori, Baha’i Citizen in Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA news agency – Hami Bahadori, Baha’i citizen is serving his sentence in Evin prison. Despite his poor physical condition, he has been deprived of being transferred to hospital and medical treatment with…
Mahvash Sabet’s Letter from Evin: Islamic Republic “Disqualified” Baha’is for Life
Source: twitter.com Translation By Iran Press Watch When the revolution happened, I was 26 years old. The principal of a school in the south of the capital gave me an order one day. I was…
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