Source: www.smh.com.au Steve Jacobs The Baha’i community living in Iran is experiencing a surge in persecution following the tension between the US and Iran. History shows that, in times of national crisis in Iran, persecution…
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Iran Uses National ID Card for Fresh Discrimination Against Baha’i
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Josie Ensor Iran’s Baha’i minority are being prevented from obtaining identity cards under new rules, depriving them of basic civil rights in another blow to the persecuted group. Iranian authorities have removed the Baha’i faith…
Firoozeh Shafizadeh Arrested
Source: www.kampain.info Firoozeh Shafizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, was arrested by security forces after returning to Iran in a village in Talesh. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Firoozeh Shafizadeh was…
Resolution on Baha’i Oppression Returns to US Congress
Source: iranwire.com ARASH AZIZI In a move that has become a yearly fixture, a resolution condemning Iran’s persecution of its Baha’i religious minority was introduced to the US House of Representatives on Thursday, January 30. This…
He was not Deemed a Martyr Because He was a Baha’i
Source: iranwire.com By MAHROKH GHOLAMHOSSEINPOUR Behnam was a young Baha’i who, in the early 1980s, during the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq, decided to go to the front; this despite Baha’i teachings, forbidding the faithful…
USCIRF Condemns Iran’s Actions Targeting Baha’is
Source: www.business-standard.com The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Wednesday condemned an Iranian court order allowing authorities to confiscate properties owned by Baha’is in the village of Ivel in Mazandaran Province. The Baha’i…
Four Baha’i Citizens Were Sent to Bushehr Prison to Endure Imprisonment
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Mino Riyazati, Ehteram Sheikhi, Farideh Jaberi, and Asadullah Jaberi, four Baha’i citizens residing in Bushehr, were taken into custody on Saturday, January 25, after appearing…
After 3 Years, Businesses of 7 Baha’is in Noshahr Remain Sealed
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Barring the Baha’is from Economic Activities HRANA News Agency – The businesses of seven Baha’i citizens in Noshahr remain sealed after more than three years. On November 1 and…
In Letter to U.N., Shirin Ebadi Protests Iran’s Suppression of Religious Freedoms
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed her concerns about the Iranian Regime’s enforcement…
Four Baha’i Citizens Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison in Karaj
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abolfazl Ansari, Ruhollah Zibaei, Roein Kohansal, and Mohammad Sadegh Rezaei, four Baha’i citizens, were collectively sentenced to four years in prison by the Karaj Revolutionary…
Baha’is Punished for Being Truthful About Their Faith
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—27 January 2020—The Baha’i International Community is deeply concerned by the surge in persecution by the Iranian authorities against the Baha’i community recently, particularly a disturbing institutional decision impacting Baha’is across the country. By…
Imprisonment, Confiscation, Denial of Most Basic Civil Rights: A Surge in Persecution of the Baha’is in Iran
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — Iranian authorities are preventing Baha’is across the country from obtaining national identification cards, while a series of home raids, confiscations, arrests, and attacks on properties have unjustly targeted Baha’is. These developments…
Court of Appeal Upholds 11-year Prison Sentence for Ali Ahmadi, Baha’i Citizen
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Hrana Agency- Without holding a court hearing, the Court of Appeal in Mazandaran Province upheld the conviction of Ali Ahmadi, a Baha’i resident of Qaemshahr city, in Mazandaran Province.…
Sahba Farnoush Sentenced to Sixteen Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Baha’i resident Sahba Farnoush was sentenced to sixteen years in prison by Judge Iman Afshari, the head of Branch 4 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.…
Baha’i Representative to the United Nations: Baha’is Banned from Education to Prevent their Progress
Source: iranhr.net Translation by Iran Press Wacth Ali Asqar Faridi – Editorial Board, Huquq-i-Ma Magazine: Followers of the Baha’i Faith are one of the largest religious minority groups in Iran, but are not recognized as…
Vahda Silani Arrested
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Vahda Silani, a Baha’i resident of Kerman, was arrested at her home by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on Sunday, January 9, and taken to an…
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