Source: www.europeantimes.news GENEVA—19 August 2022 The Baha’i International Community has received news of a shocking and outrageous new propaganda ploy to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production filmed in a kindergarten. On…
Source: www.statecraft.co.in Since July 31, Iranian authorities have arrested several Baha’is on the charge of spying for Israel. Iran has stepped up its persecution of the Baha’i community has “increased in intensity,” human rights watchdog Amnesty…
Source: dnyuz.com Iran has been accused of planting fake pamphlets promoting the Baha’i faith in nurseries in an attempt to falsely imprison its believers on charges of sedition. As Tehran widens its crackdown on the persecuted minority group, Baha’i community leaders…
Source: www.amnesty.org The Iranian authorities’ persecution of the Baha’i religious minority has increased in intensity with a recent flurry of raids, arbitrary arrests, home demolitions and land grabs, Amnesty International said today.Since 31 July 2022, Ministry…
Source: www.thestatesman.com The clear objective is to strangulate and exterminate identified people; full details of the specific nature of the acts of violence are available in the public domain. A. K. MERCHANT Religiously motivated violence…
Source: iranhumanrights.org Court Rulings Based on Unsubstantiated Claims An ongoing campaign of religious persecution by the Iranian government has so far resulted in more than 1,000 members of the Baha’i minority faith awaiting jail sentence announcements, confiscation of Baha’i-owned lands and…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On August 19, the Baha’i International Community (BIC) issued a statement entitled “Iran’s Brazen Propaganda Ploy to Incriminate Baha’is Through Fake Videos and Hate Speech”. In it, the BIC accused the Iranian government of…
Source: iranwire.com IranWire understands that during the afternoon of 31 August, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Mazandaran province raided the home of a Baha’i citizen, Mojir Samimi, in Ghaemshahr, and arrested eleven young Baha’is …
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA – 1 September 2022 – Fourteen Baha’is including thirteen youth were arrested yesterday in the northern Iranian city of Qaemshahr, Mazandaran province, and detained at the Sari intelligence office. Most of the arrests occurred at…
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — Government officials, international and national media outlets and dozens of prominent civil society actors and individuals have rushed to the defense of the Bahá’ís of Iran, this month, with an…
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK – 23 August 2022 – Government officials, international and national media outlets and dozens of prominent civil society actors and individuals have rushed to the defense of the Baha’is of Iran, this month, with…
Source: www.amnesty.org Iran’s persecuted Baha’i minority are suffering escalated attacks on their human rights. Since 31 July 2022, the authorities have raided dozens of Baha’i houses, detained at least 30 people, and subjected many more to…
Source: iranwire.com The Baha’i International Community (BIC) today reported news of an effort to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production, filmed in a kindergarten, designed to produce proaganda footage that would show…
Source: news.un.org Authorities in Iran must stop the persecution and harassment of religious minorities, a group of independent UN human rights experts said in a statement issued on Monday expressing alarm over the escalation in…
Source: www.iranintl.com By Maryam Sinaee Informed sources tell Iran International that at least 90 Iranian Baha’i students have been barred from universities this year due to a secret government policy. The United States-based Human Rights Activists’ News…
Source: www.ohchr.org GENEVA (22 August 2022) – UN experts* today called on Iranian authorities to stop persecution and harassment of religious minorities and end the use of religion to curtail the exercise of fundamental rights. “We are…
