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…
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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…
Iran Accused of Propaganda Ploy to Incriminate Baha’i Religious Minority
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…
Iran’s “Onslaught” of Baha’i Community Has Increased in Intensity: Amnesty International
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…
Iran Accused of Propaganda Ploy to Incriminate Baha’i Religious Minority
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…
Iran: Stop ruthless attacks on persecuted Baha’i religious minority
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…
Iran’s Persecution of Bahá’ís Must End
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…
Prejudiced Courts Aiding Land Grabs of Baha’i Properties in Iran
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…
The Truth Behind Iranian State TV’s Dramatic Report on ‘Baha’i Kindergartens’
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…
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