Source: iran-hrm.com While the Coronavirus has been ravaging in various provinces across Iran, the regime’s security and judicial apparatus have heightened their persecution of minorities and political and civil rights activists. In May, many prisoners who…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA: Farzan Masoumi and Farham Sabet, two Baha’is living in Shiraz, have been sentenced by the Shiraz Revolutionary Court to a total of 12 years in prison. HRANA News…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Elaheh Samizadeh, a Baha’i citizen of Shiraz, has been sentenced to one extra year of imprisonment and two years suspension from holding all governmental and public jobs by Branch 105 of Shiraz Criminal Court.…
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – Rouhollah Zibaie, a Baha’i citizen residing in Karaj, was summoned to Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Karaj. This occurred while he had already been sentenced to one-year imprisonment…
Source: en.radiofarda.com In a statement released on May 18 the Baha’i International Community (BIC) warned about the increased persecution of Baha’is in Iran despite the coronavirus health crisis. “In recent days, two Baha’is in Isfahan have…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The Alborz Province Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of four Baha’i citizens: Abolfazl Ansari, Ruhollah Zibaei, Roein Kohansal and Mohammad Sadegh Rezaei. This verdict was…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press watch HRANA News Agency – Elaheh Samizadeh and Soodabeh Haghighat, Baha’i citizens living in Shiraz, were sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison by the First Branch…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 May 2020—In a reprehensible move by the Iranian government, incidents of persecution against the Baha’is have increased despite already difficult circumstances endured by the entire population during a global health crisis. In recent…
Source: en.radiofarda.com A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced seven followers of the Baha’i faith to a total of 33 years in prison, Iran Human Rights News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday. According to the report…
Source: www.fdd.org Tzvi Kahn, Alireza Nader The Obama administration routinely argued that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran could spur Tehran to moderate, thereby reducing its systematic human rights abuses. But this forecast has proven…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – this morning, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Vahed Kholousi Derakhshan, a human rights activist and a Baha’i citizen, was informed of his early release after contacting…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – The optician business of Baha’i citizen, Payam Vali, has been shut down and sealed by government agencies for approximately twelve years, with his most recent…
Source: www.fdd.org By Tzvi Kahn Religious freedom conditions in Iran “remained egregiously poor” in 2019, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday. The report paints a bleak portrait…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On May 2, at around 4pm, three groups of officers identifying themselves as Revolutionary Guards intelligence agents, simultaneously raided the homes of three Baha’i citizens living in Isfahan. The Baha’is were Shahzad…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Nine Baha’i citizens ‒ Rahmatollah Deimi, Atieh Salehi, Ataollah Malaki, Farzaneh Deimi, Nasrin Ghadiri, Banafsheh Mokhtari, Arezoo Mohammadi, Saeed Malaki and Roya Malaki ‒ have been sentenced…
Source: www.jpost.com By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL The Islamic Republic of Iran’s antisemitic targeting its tiny Jewish population, Israel, Christians and Jews in the Diaspora, was cited in the report. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)…
