Source: www.iranintl.com A group of Iranian civil activists issued a statement protesting “heavy and unfair” sentences against two well-known Baha’i figures. Bahai community leaders Fariba Kamalabadi, 60, and Mahvash Sabet Shahriari, 70, were handed new 10-year…
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Kian Sabeti Sepehr Ziaie is one of the Baha’is detained in recent weeks, during the new round of protests in Iran. While the authorities of the Islamic Republic have…
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ms. Sanaz Tafzali (Ruhi), a 45-year-old Baha’i citizen, married mother of two, has been detained in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison for three months without specific charges. As of March…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Currently, 24 women are being held at the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran for political and alleged national security charges. This report provides an updated list of these prisoners along with their…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – The detention order for Pouya Saraf, a Baha’i citizen living in Karaj, has been extended. Mr. Saraf had already been detained for 100 days at…
Source: www.iranintl.com In response to Iran’s foreign minister’s denials of rape in prisons, an imprisoned female activist announced she is ready to testify against the government. In a letter sent to Radio Farda, the Persian Service…
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – On Saturday, the 6th of March, 2023, Ali Bazmandegan, a Baha’i citizen living in Shiraz, was summoned to Langeroud Prison in Qom to serve his prison sentence. According to HRANA…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Alborz Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Payam Vali, imprisoned in Ghezel Hesar Prison, to 16 years imprisonment, pre-trial detention included. He was also banned from leaving the country for two years and sentenced…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 February 2023—This week, two Baha’i women in Iran, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, have entered the fourth month of unjust 10-year jail terms in Evin Prison. Together with five others, they were members…
Source: finance.yahoo.com Washington, D.C., Feb. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Senate Resolution 74 (S.Res.74), condemning the recent surge in state-sponsored persecution of the Baha’i community of Iran, was introduced on February 16th in the United States Senate. It…
Source: www.iranwire.com A member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority has refused to sign a false confession in exchange for his release, IranWire understands. Payam Vali, a Baha’i citizen who has been held in jail for…
Source: www.iranwire.com The Karaj Revolutionary Court sentenced eleven Baha’i citizens, out of 13 defendants of one legal case, to over 36 years and additional punishments. According to these verdicts, Afif Na’imi, Saman OstovarKamyar Habibi, Rameleh Tirgarnejad,…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On January 14, the Islamic Republic executed Alireza Akbari, a former deputy defense minister and an Iranian-British dual national. But Akbari was not the first dual national sent to the gallows by the…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti President Ebrahim Raisi, a longtime establishment figure in the Islamic Republic who has been Iran’s president since August 2021, was before his election a senior judiciary official for more than 40 years.…
Source: www.atlanticcouncil.org Anthony Vance According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), since Mahsa Jina Amini was killed by the so-called morality police in September 2022, demonstrations have occurred in at least 163 cities and at 144 universities in…
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian prosecutor has accused a member of the country’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority of having established “extensive” contacts with Persian-language media outlets outside Iran and spreading “propaganda” against the Islamic Republic. Payam Vali,…
