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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Source: iranwire.com Iranian police arrested a member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority on Tuesday and took him to an unknown location, IranWire understands. Armed forces raided the workplace and home of Homayoun Khanlori, a business owner…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Payam Vali is one of the members of Iran’s long persecuted Baha’i religious minority who have been arrested in the country in the past two months. He was taken to custody on September 24…
Source: www.bic.org 35th special session of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially with respect to women and children GENEVA —24 November 2022 Mr. President,…
Source: home.treasury.gov WASHINGTON —Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating six senior employees of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the Iranian state-run media corporation that has…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Many members of the Baha’i religious minority have been arrested across Iran in recent weeks amid unabated nationwide protests. Some were detained at their homes while others were rounded up with other…
