Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Two Baha’i citizens were arrested by the security forces on Saturday, September 24, 2022, and taken to an unknown location. Sepehr Ziaei was arrested at his…
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Treasury Sanctions Iran’s Morality Police and Senior Security Officials for Violence Against Protesters and the Death of Mahsa Amini
Source: home.treasury.gov WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating Iran’s Morality Police for abuse and violence against Iranian women and the violation of the rights of…
Baha’i “Open Cases”
Source: www.aasoo.org Translation by Iran Press Watch What you will read is the result of several hours of conversation with three people – Morteza, Pejman and Maryam. All three, who are not Bahá’ís, have Bahá’í friends…
‘the World Is Watching’: Australian Daughter of Iranian Baha’i in Prison Pleads for Her Release
Source: www.abc.net.au By Nassim Khadem When Negar Sabet awakes after a restless night in Sydney, she agonises about her elderly mother, Mahvash Sabet, who has been locked up in Iran’s notorious Evin prison since the end…
Summoning and Interrogating 4 Baha’i Citizens in Gorgan
Source: humanrightsinir.org Tuesday, September 13, 2022- Four Baha’i citizens living in Gorgan, Golestan Province, were interrogated after being summoned by telephone to the city’s Intelligence Department. According to Human Rights in Iran, on Wednesday, September7, 2022,…
Baha’is Citizen Jila Shahriari Imprisoned
Source: www.en-hrana.org According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Baha’i citizen Jila Shahriari started her sentencing at Evin Prison. An informed source told HRANA that Evin Prison officials called Shahriari to appear at Prosecutor’s…
Baha’i Citizen Kamyar Habibi Arrested
Source: humanrightsinir.org Sunday, September 11, 2022 – Agents of the Alborz Province Intelligence Department arrested Kamyar Habibi, a Baha’i citizen living in the city. According to the report of Human Rights in Iran, on Saturday, September…
Persecution in Iran: the Baha’i Faith and False Charges of Heresy
Source: www.algemeiner.com By Chaim Lax For the past month, there has been an uptick in news stories about members of the Baha’i faith in Iran being arrested on a number of trumped-up charges, including spying for…
Hollywood Actors Condemn Iran’s Persecution of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Three Hollywood actors and celebrities, Mark Ruffalo, Rainn Wilson and Justin Baldoni, have denounced the Iranian government’s ongoing persecution of the Baha’i community in a series of tweets published last week. The interventions came after security agents arrested…
Baha’i Individual Fariba Ashtari Arrested in Yazd
Source: www.en-hrana.org On September 7, 2022, the intelligence agents arrested Fariba Ashtari and transferred her to Yazd Prison. An informed source told HRANA that Ashtari has been arrested to start her five-year sentence. She had a…
Assault and Battery, Contracting Corona; Extension of the Arrest Warrant for Four Baha’i Citizens in Mazandaran
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA news agency, the news arm of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, the detention order of Negar Darabi, Samieh Gholinejad and Bita Haghighi in Qaemshahr Prison…
26 Baha’i Citizens Sentenced to Combined 76 years in Prison, Shiraz
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch The 37th branch of the Court of Appeal of Fars province, headed by Saeed Bolandzadeh and the branch’s advisor, Kamran Zare, announced the appeal decision of 26 Baha’i citizens…
Targets of Opportunity: Iran’s Bahá’í Community Faces New Repression | Opinion
Source: www.newsweek.com KNOX THAMES , FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES As negations between Iran and global powers crescendo for a revised nuclear deal, Iran’s peaceful and long-suffering Bahá’í community has again become the target of Iranian…
Iran’s Government Cracks Down on Bahá’ís; 200 Incidents Reported
Source: kayhanlife.com By Natasha Phillips The Iranian government cracked down on the Baha’i religious minority over a three-week period starting on July 31. There were 200 reported incidents, according to the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), the official voice…
Iran Arrests Baha’i Members; Advocates Demand Their Release
Source: www.arabnews.com The Baha’i demanded their release and called their arrests part of a long pattern of persecution by Iran’s Shiite theocracy Iran offered no evidence to support the allegations of the Baha’i doing anything…
Faith: Hatred Inflicted on Baha’is in Iran Needs Our Attention
Source: www.statesman.com By Ajit Giani Special to the American-Statesman History is a stark reminder that much evil is perpetrated in darkness when we either don’t know or don’t care to know about the challenges and difficulties…