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…
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Iran’s Nod to International Human Rights Day Was More Repression of Its People
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…
Baha’i Mona Ghodrat Arrested in Yazd
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…
Bardia Basiri Arrested
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…
Jailed Baha’i Couple Barred from Seeing Each Other
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…
Iran: Writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet sentenced to ten years in prison
Source: pen-international.org PEN International is outraged by reports that Baha’i writer, poet, and honorary member of Danish and Austrian PEN Mahvash Sabet was sentenced to ten years in prison. PEN International calls on the Iranian authorities to quash the conviction and…
Sepehr Ziaei, a Baha’i in Evin, Held Despite Deteriorating Health
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Sepehr Ziaei, a 62-year-old Iranian Baha’i, is one of several Baha’is who have been detained in recent weeks in the country. He has been held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison for…
Baha’i Faraz Haghighatjoo Arrested in Shiraz
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 10, security forces arrested Baha’i citizen Faraz Haghighatjoo in Shiraz and took him to Adel-Abad Prison. During the arrest, the agents searched his house and confiscated some of his belongings. According to…
An Unbelievable Injustice: Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi sentenced to a second decade in prison in Iran
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—11 December 2022—In the midst of increasingly violent and repressive actions by the Iranian authorities against their own citizens, two Baha’i women, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, regarded as symbols of resilience in Iran…
Baha’i Citizen Farbod Alavi Arrested
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 4, 2022, security forces arrested Baha’i citizen Farbod Alavi and jailed him in Evin Prison. The agents searched his house and confiscated some of his belongings. According to HRANA, the news agency…
Baha’i citizen Vesal Momtazi Arrested in Rasht
Source: www.en-hrana.org On December 6, security forces arrested Baha’i citizen Vesal Momtazi in Rasht and took him to Lakan Prison. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Baha’i…
Iranian Baha’i, Father of a Four-Year-Old, Languishing in Jail
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Pouya Sarraf, an Iranian Baha’i, aged 33, was arrested in the city of Karaj a month ago, on November 2, and later transferred to a detention facility in Shiraz. Sarraf, who has…
Government Arrests More Baha’is, Again
Source: iranwire.com Iranian authorities arrested two members of Iran’s long persecuted Baha’i religious minority on Sunday amid an intensified crackdown on the faith group, IranWire can report. Thirteen Kerman Intelligence Department agents raided the houses of Roha…
The Islamic Republic’s History of Massacring Kurdish Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Slaughter has been the Iranian government’s only response to protest over the past 43 years. And even as the September 16 death of the 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of…
Iran Arrests Baha’i To Serve Six-Month Sentence Amid Crackdown On Faith
Source: iranwire.com A member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority has been arrested in the southern city of Shiraz to serve a six-month prison sentence handed down earlier this year, IranWire reports. Nasim Kashaninejad was arrested…
House Condemns Iranian Persecution of Baha’i Minority
Source: foreignaffairs.house.gov Washington, DC – Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and David N. Cicilline, Chair of the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism Subcommittee, today issued the following statement…
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