Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have faced many forms of systematic discrimination and harassment over the past four decades, including deportation, educational restrictions, detention, harassment, torture, imprisonment and even execution. The burial of Baha’i…
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA – Manijeh Azamian, a Baha’i citizen living in Babol, was arrested by the city’s intelligence service on Tuesday, April 15, and released on bail a day later. Four days before her arrest, security…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—22 April 2021—Continuing Iran’s decades-long campaign of persecution of its Baha’i community from cradle to grave, the Iranian authorities have now banned the Baha’is of Tehran from burying their loved ones in a space…
Source: augustolopez-claros.blogspot.com Augusto Lopez-Claros The economic marginalization of women and ethnic, religious, and other minorities is a pervasive problem in virtually every country in the world. There is compelling economic evidence that shows that excluding minorities…
Source: iranwire.com As Iranians were marking the end of the Nowruz holidays in early April, more than 25 Baha’is were summoned and arrested in the cities of Shiraz, Mashhad, Bandar Abbas, and Karaj. Others saw their…
Source: iranwire.com More than five days after the arrest of seven Baha’is in Shiraz, some of the detainees’ families are still in the dark as to their loved ones’ health and physical wellbeing. IranWire understands that…
Source: www.bbc.com Translation by Iran Press Watch More than 40 academics from around the world, as well as the Iranian Studies Association, have called on the Iranian government to release Tooraj Amini, a researcher on…
Source: iran-hrm.com Baha’i citizens in Iran are facing a new wave of arrests and raids on their homes in several cities across the country. In the past days, dozens of Baha’i citizens have been detained or…
Source: irannewswire.org Seven Iranian Bahais were detained on the evening of April 6 in the south-central city of Shiraz. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the Bahais were identified as Saeed Etehad, Ghasem Masoumi, Siamak Henrour,…
Source: iran-hrm.com Iranian authorities have summoned nine Baha’i citizens to begin prison terms after convicting them of security crimes for peaceful activities including proselytizing for the Baha’i faith. On April 6, nine Baha’i men and women…
Source: irannewswire.org Seven Iranian Bahai women in northeastern and southern Iran were summoned to serve their prison terms for following the banned faith. On March 27, five Bahai women were summoned to serve their prison terms…
Source: mesana.org Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o H.E. Mr. Takht-Ravanchi Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Email: [email protected] Fax: +1 (212) 867-7086 Chief Justice…
Source: www.state.gov Executive Summary ANNOUNCEMENT: The Department of State will release an addendum to this report in mid 2021 that expands the subsection on Women in Section 6 to include a broader range of issues related to…
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA ‒ Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Sophia Mobini and Negin Tadrisi, two Baha’i citizens. They had previously been sentenced by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary…
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA – Today, Saturday March 7th, Minoo Riazati, Ehteram Sheikhi, Farideh Jaberi and Assadollah Jaberi, four Baha’i citizens, returned to Bushehr Prison at the end of their furlough. In March of last year,…
Source: www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns the continued persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran. Notes from a local government meeting calling for increased control of Baha’is were leaked publicly by…
