Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’i citizens in Bandar Abbas have recently faced increasing pressure from security forces In the latest case, six Baha’is have been subjected to an illegal judicial process and jailed just days before the…
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Persecution Of Baha’i Citizens Intensifies In Iran’s Mazandaran Province
Source: iranintl.com Two human rights organizations announced that according to a classified document that they have acquired, the Islamic Republic officials have intensified their monitoring and restrictions over citizens of Baha’i faith in Iran’s northern province…
Exposed: Sinister Plan by Iranian Authorities to Monitor and Suppress Baha’is
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—10 March 2021—The Baha’i International Community (BIC) is appalled by the contents of an official Iranian directive which instructs local authorities in the city of Sari, in the northern province of Mazandaran, to “conduct…
Wide-Reaching Solidarity Expressed With Baha’is Facing Persecution in Iran
Source: news.bahai.ca The court-ordered confiscation of properties from 27 Baha’i families in the farming village of Ivel, Iran, has been answered by wide-reaching solidarity from all corners of Canadian society. This outpouring of support has been…
Iran: Leaked Document Reveals Plans to Intensify Suppression of Baha’is and Other Religious Minorities
Source: www.fidh.org Joint FIDH-LDDHI Statement The League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) has received a copy of the minutes of a “top confidential” meeting held on 21 September 2020 in the city of…
Baha’i in Iran — Repressed and Persecuted by the State
Source: www.dw.com It’s no secret that the Baha’i community in Iran faces far-reaching oppression. Now, DW has gained access to a policy paper that appears to show the extent to which the repression is state-sponsored. The…
#ItsTheirLand: Unprecedented reaction makes voice of persecuted Bahá’ís in an Iranian village global
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — A global campaign in support of the persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran has generated an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity from officials at the United Nations and the European Union, statesmen, government officials, religious figures…
Farmers, Agricultural Scientists, Policy Makers Address Iran’s Chief Justice and Minister of Agriculture
Source: news.bahai.org SYDNEY — Farmers as well as agricultural scientists and policy makers from Australia, Africa and North America have joined the global outcry at the unjust confiscation of lands belonging to Bahá’í farmers in…
Canadian Legal Luminaries Sign Letter Accusing Iranian Courts of Persecuting Baha’i Faith
Source: www.cbc.ca Evan Dyer A group that includes Brian Mulroney and Jody Wilson-Raybould is denouncing confiscation of Baha’i homes The rulings of a court in a rural corner of northeastern Iran have brought together a Who’s…
Tragic History of Baha’is Who Died in Prison
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Behnam Mahjoubi, a prisoner of conscience, was transferred from Evin Prison to Loghman Hospital in Tehran, on February 13, 2021. He was in a coma. Three days later doctors gave up hope for his…
Collective Statement by Iranian Religious Modernists, Condemning Confiscation of Baha’i Property
Source: www.kaleme.com We urgently request that the Iranian government and the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic end the brutal confiscation of Baha’i property throughout the country and impartially attend to the grievances of the Baha’is and…
Baha’i Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Jail
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian Baha’i citizen named Parisa Sadeghi has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of membership of the Baha’i faith, IranWire has learned. An informed source told IranWire that Branch 36 of…
Eight Baha’is Jailed in Bandar Abbas
Source: iranwire.com Eight Baha’i citizens living in Bandar Abbas and Shiraz have been summoned to the Bandar Abbas Penal Enforcement Unit to begin serving their sentences.The notices issued to the eight, whose sentence was upheld at…
Bahai Family Sentenced to a Total of 7 Years in Prison in Tehran
Source: irannewswire.org The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced three members of a Bahai family to a total of seven years of prison yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the three Bahais were identified…
#ItsTheirLand Twitter Storm in Support of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com A tempest of tweets is expected to sweep the Internet today and tomorrow, 22 and 23 February, in support of the Baha’is in Ivel, a village in northern Iran, whose land has been confiscated by the…
A Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel
Source: www.wsj.com By Reza Afshari Followers of the Baha’i faith are persecuted at home but welcomed abroad. Israel is the last country where an Iranian raised in a Muslim family would have expected to find a…
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