Source: www.en-hrana.org The Isfahan Courthouse has indicted 15 Baha’i residents from Baharestan City in Isfahan County. Among those indicted are Mojgan (Mozhgan) Pourshafee, Nasrin Khademi, Azita Rezvani-Khah, Shola Ashouri, Mojdeh Bahamin, Bashra Motahar, Sara Shakib,…
Source: iranwire.com In an escalation of harassment against Baha’i citizens, a Revolutionary Court has summoned 12 members of the persecuted religious minority to face charges. Branch One of the Revolutionary Court in northern Sari has…
Source: www.bbc.com Rooja Asadi Translation by Iran Press Watch Keyvan Rahimian, a Baha’i citizen imprisoned in Iran, penned a letter addressed to his late wife from Evin prison, detailing the plight faced by his family…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—4 April 2024—The United Nations Human Rights Council voted today to renew the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran. The resolution passed by 24 votes, with…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Baha’i Ardeshir Fanaeian is currently serving a six-year prison term in Semnan prison. According to a source close to Fanaeian’s family, since his incarceration, prison officials have held him separated from other inmates…
Source: www.aljazeera.com New report says minority group faces a ‘spectrum of abuses’, including arbitrary arrest and property confiscation. Iran’s persecution of its Baha’i minority has been branded “a crime against humanity”. Human Rights Watch alleged…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—1 April 2024—A groundbreaking report published today by the pre-eminent human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, states that the Iranian government’s 45-year systematic repression of the Baha’i religious minority amounts to the crime…
Source: www.hrw.org Summary Baha’is are the largest unrecognized religious minority in Iran. They have been the target of harsh, state-backed repression since their religion was established in the 19th century. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian…
Stuart Williams Source: www.yahoo.com A flattened patch of earth is all that remains of where the graves once stood –- evidence, Iran’s Bahais say, that their community is subjected to persecution even in death. Beneath…
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—19 March 2024—The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, as well as a wave of UN Member States, highlighted the “extreme” persecution of Iran’s Baha’i community at the Human Rights…
Source: www.sbs.com.au The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan is underway and coincides this year with fasting for followers of the Baha’i faith. Most of the 15,000 Baha’is in Australia have migrated from Iran, where followers…
Source: www.iranintl.com Norway based Victim’s Families for Transitional Justice has written to Javaid Rehman, Iran’s UN human rights rapporteur, about rights breaches at Khavaran Cemetery, Tehran. The group has sent a letter to the Special Rapporteur…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Shabnam Tebyanian, a Baha’i citizen, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court of Semnan to six months imprisonment along with supplementary punishments. However, the prison term has been commuted to a fine. Tebyanian…
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Radio Farda has learned that the Semnan Revolutionary Court has sentenced Anisa Fanaian, a Baha’i citizen, to 16 years in prison. Informed sources have informed Radio Farda that…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iran deploys a sinister tactic against the Baha’i religious minority—fabricating legal cases and relentless summonses, creating a web of oppression. Recent revelations expose the extent of government hostility, leaving Baha’is in…
Source: iranwire.com The United States has denounced the desecration of over 30 graves of the Baha’i religious minority in a Tehran cemetery, condemning the Islamic Republic’s persecution of the community. “We condemn the destruction of 30 graves…
