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…
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Persecution of the Baha’i Faith in Iran – FCDO statement
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…
Four Baha’i Citizens Arrested in Yazd
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…
Sina Shahri, a Baha’i Citizen Living in Tabriz, Started Serving His Eight-Month Prison Sentence
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…
Baha’i Jailed After Educational and Humanitarian Service Projects
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…
Four Baha’i Women Detained in Shiraz
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…
Iranian President Raisi Disregards Human Rights and Calls for Religious Respect Despite 44-Year Record of Religious Persecution and Rights Abuses
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…
USCIRF Report: Religious Freedom in Iran ‘Sharply’ Deteriorating
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…
Unprecedented vote at US House of Representatives in support of Iranian Baha’is invigorates global support
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…
Father Imprisoned / Son Deprived of Education: Report on Violation of Human Rights of Baha’i Family
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,…
US Baha’is Condemn Persecution Of Group In Iran
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…
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Resolution 492 Condemning the Persecution of Baha’is in Iran
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…
Iran Continues Its Crackdown On Baha’i Faith With Arrests, 12 School Closures
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.…
Baha’i Woman in Iran Handed 16-Year Prison Term
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…
Saman’s School: Iranian Authorities Jail Education Pioneer for Being a Baha’i
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti “I cannot remember the exact moment when the idea of launching a school with a new system first took root in my mind; perhaps it began to start towards the…
The IR Has Extended Suppression to Cemeteries and Funerals; Shadi Shahidzadeh: From Burying Her Grandmother to 48 Days in Solitary Confinement, Her Journey to Evin Prison
Source: Narges Mohammadi On June 16th, a 29-year-old Baha’i woman entered the women’s ward after enduring 48 days of confinement in the secure cells of ward 209.Her charge was attempting to bury her grandmother.Shadi Shahidzadeh…
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