Source: www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR) strongly condemns the continued confiscation of Baháʼí-owned property by Iranian authorities. Recent reports from the Baháʼí International Community found that groups connected to Iranian leadership are “orchestrating a…
Source: iranwire.com Earlier this month, Baha’i woman named Saeedeh Khozouei was arrested by security forces in Tehran and taken to an unknown location. Two weeks on, her family still have no idea where she is. Her son Arsalan Yazdani was…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Recently, a Baha’is cemetery in Hamedan Province was partly demolished overnight. As a result of provoking anti-Baha’i sentiments by the Iranian officials, Baha’i citizens’ business locations and cemeteries come under attack periodically. According to…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Ebrahim Raisi, then Tehran’s Revolutionary Prosecutor, now President Raisi responded in a 1992 interview to United Nations accusations regarding persecution of the Baha’is. “The execution of a Baha’i by the name Bahman Samandari…
Source: www.state.gov As members, friends, and observers of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, we note with grave concern the increased pattern of repression and discrimination against members of the Bahá’í community around the world. We…
Source: iranwire.com SALEEM VAILLANCOURT “The confiscation of Baha’i properties has been one of the main features of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran,” said Simin Fahandej, Representative of the Baha’i International Community (BIC) to the…
Source: www.en-hrana.org According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on Monday, April 11, 2022, Bahai’ citizen Saaedeh Khozuei was arrested following the appearance at Evin Courthouse. It was the second time in…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Iranian calendar year 1400, which ended on March 20, appears to have been one of the hardest in recent years for the country’s dwindling Baha’i population. IranWire’s surveys indicate at…
Source: iranwire.com More than 1,000 Baha’is in Iran are in a “limbo” between their initial arrests, their legal hearings and their final summons to prison, according to a new statement by the Baha’i International Community (BIC),…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Last Sunday, March 13, 2022, Baha’i citizen Shahram Najaf-Tomaraei was sent to Evin Prison to serve his two-year sentence. Earlier, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced him to two years imprisonment. According to HRANA,…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On Saturday, March 12, 2022, Baha’i citizen Shahnaz Sabet was arrested by security forces and transferred to Adel-Abad Prison in Shiraz city. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on Saturday,…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—11 March 2022—A new report and its annex, “Rights of persons belonging to religious or belief minorities in situations of conflict or insecurity”, by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Sedigheh Aghdasi, Behrouz Farzandi and Qasem Masoumi, Baha’i citizens living in Shiraz, were arrested on Monday, March 7, 2022, and transferred to Adelabad Prison in…
Source: www.cbc.ca Articite Inc.’s BIPOC artist-in-residence this month is Tina Rouhandeh Josiah Sinanan · CBC News Art enthusiasts in Windsor, Ont, have a chance to see a forgotten form of Persian calligraphy put together in real-time by…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Recently, the Court of Appeal of Mazandaran Province upheld the initial verdict of one year in prison against Baha’i citizen Shiva Khalili. Moreover, in this verdict, her cell phone, which they ruled has been…
Source: www.bic.org Persian translation here GENEVA—16 February 2022—The Baha’i International Community is gravely concerned that an organisation entirely controlled by Iran’s leadership—a parastatal body called the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO), also known as Setad), which controls…
