Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Since 2022, when the Woman, Life, Freedom protests against the Islamic Republic’s leadership erupted across Iran, the authorities have dramatically intensified their clampdown on members of the Baha’is faith. Many Baha’is…
Source: iranwire.com The Court of Appeals in Khorasan Razavi province has upheld the initial verdict for Hourieh Mohseni, a Baha’i citizen, sentencing her to four years in prison. She was sentenced to three years in…
Source: www.iranintl.com According to the information received by Iran International, The fate of Keyvan Rahimian, Iman Rashidi and Yekta Fahandej Saadi, Baha’i citizens who were detained separately by the security forces in the cities of…
Source: iranwire.com The Court of Appeals in Khorasan Razavi province has confirmed the sentences of two members of the Baha’i religious minority to three years and eight months in prison apiece. Farideh Moradi and Golnoush…
Source: www.sbs.com.au Members of the Baha’i community in Australia say they fear for their relatives’ safety as persecution of the religious minority “intensifies” in Iran. KEY POINTS On 18 December 2023, while many Australians were…
Source: iranwire.com Two Baha’i citizens, Mina Karami and Soroush Iqani, face imminent imprisonment as the Iranian government escalates its crackdown on the religious minority. According to HRANA human rights website, on January 15 Mina Karami,…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’i villagers – a group that is part of both a proscribed religious minority, as well as Iran’s precarious agricultural class – are one of Iranian society’s most vulnerable communities. The Islamic…
Source: iranwire.com In a coordinated operation on January 9, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence raided the homes of several Baha’i families in Tabriz, marking a fresh escalation in the government’s pressure campaign against the…
Source: iranwire.com A revolutionary court in the Iranian city of Bojnurd has sentenced a Baha’i family to a combined total of four years and eight months in prison, a human rights website reported. Shayan Senaei…
Source: www.iranintl.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to information received by Iran International, on December 15th and October 18th, memorial services for two departed Baha’i citizens, Noura Imani and Golchehreh Nobakht (Darabi), were canceled…
Source: www.iranintl.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to information received by Iran International, on the evening of December 15th, agents from the Ministry of Information raided the post-wedding celebration of a Baha’i couple, Milad…
Source: iranwire.com The Khorasan Razavi Court of Appeal has confirmed an eight-year prison sentence handed down against Sirus Zabihi Moghadam, a 63-year-old Bahai citizen residing in Mashhad. The initial ruling was issued by the Mashhad…
Source: www.zeitoons.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Zeitoun- More than a hundred political and civil activists issued a statement condemning the “new wave of arrests against Baha’is and their deprivation of basic human and civil…
Source: www.bic.org Farmlands belonging to Baha’i families in the village of Ahmadabad, a lush and fertile agricultural community in Mazandaran province, were forcibly seized this week by Iranian officials GENEVA—4 January 2024—Farmlands, rice paddies and…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On January 1, 2024, police agents and forest rangers carried out the confiscation of approximately 60 hectares of Baha’i-owned land in the Ahmadabad Village, adjacent to Sari in Mazandaran Province. Acting on the…
Source: www.en-hrana.org In a recent ruling, the Court of Appeal in Razavi Khorasan Province upheld the three-year, eight-month sentences for Baha’i citizens Nasim Sabeti, Azita Foroughi, Rouya Ghane Ezabadi, and Soheila Ahmadi. The lawyer has…
