Source: iranwire.com Iranian authorities have arrested a 28-year-old Baha’i musician, IranWire reports, amid an intensified crackdown on members of the persecuted religious minority. Armed forces raided Elmira Rahmani’s house in the central city of Isfahan on…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, Baha’i citizen, continues to be detained in Qarchak Varamin prison. HRANA news agency – Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, a Baha’i citizen, who was arrested Saturday, September 24,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA news agency – Ghasem Masoumi, a Baha’i citizen, is serving his 31-month sentence in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz. This Baha’i citizen was arrested in March of last…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On Thursday, January 12, security forces arrested Baha’i citizen Nabil Movafaghi, a resident of Sari, at his relatives’ house in Gonbad-e Kavus, Golestan Province. The agents searched the house, confiscated some of his belongings,…
Source: iranwire.com Iranian authorities have arrested a member of the country’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority in the northern city of Qaemshahr, IranWire has learnt, amid an intensified crackdown on the faith. The news about Matin Gorji’s…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Badi Khazei to six years in prison. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Baha’i citizen Badi Khazei was sentenced to six years in…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The name Forouhar reminds most Iranians of Dariush Forouhar, the prominent nationalist politician who, with his wife Parvaneh, were assassinated in 1998 in what became known as the Chain Murders of intellectuals and critics of…
Source: iranwire.com Iranian authorities have arrested a member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority amid an intensified crackdown on the faith, IranWire reports. Security forces went to Yashar Rasti’s home in the southern city of Shiraz…
Source: iranwire.com The Australian chapter of PEN International, a freedom of expression group, has strongly condemned the detention of award-winning Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she is being held in solitary confinement,…
Source: iranwire.com The Sunni Friday prayer leader of the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan has urged the country’s Shia clerical leaders to respect the rights of all religious minorities and to stop accusing members of Iran’s…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On December 27, 1981, eight Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Hrana News Agency – This Sunday morning, January 1, Nakissa Hajipour, a Baha’i citizen living in Tehran, was arrested at Mashhad Airport and taken to an unknown location. An…
Source: www.thejournal.ie Brendan McNamara TIME MAGAZINE HAS named the women of Iran as their 2022 “Heroes of the Year” and the international community has rightly recognised the bravery and heroism of all Iranians, especially women, who are publicly…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 19, 2022, security forces arrested Baha’i Mona Ghodrat in Yazd. An informed source told HRANA that Ghodrat was arrested in the street and taken to IRGC’s detention facility. The agents also searched…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 17, 2022, security forces arrested Bardia Basiri at his home in Tehran. His wife, Ayda Rasti, is also detained. The intelligence agents searched his house and confiscated some of his belongings. According…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Majid Tavakoli, a well-known student rights activist, was beaten about a month ago while being held in Ward 241 of Evin Prison. News of this beating went viral on social media at…
