Source: www.en-hrana.org The Mashhad Revolutionary Court has handed down a sentence of three years and eight months to Baha’i citizen Nooshin Mesbah. According to the ruling issued by Judge Hadi Mansouri, Mesbah has been sentenced…
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Sanaz Tafazoli’s Prison Sentence Upheld on Appeal
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Court of Appeal in Razavi Khorasan Province has upheld the ten-year and nine-month prison sentence of Baha’i citizen Sanaz Tafazoli. Tafazoli is currently incarcerated in Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad. According to information provided…
Baha’i Citizen Sanaz Tafazoli Receives Lengthy Prison Sentence
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Mashhad Revolutionary Court has handed down a lengthy sentence of ten years and nine months to Sanaz Tafazoli, a Baha’i citizen currently held in Vakilabad prison. Presiding Judge Hadi Mansouri issued the…
Baha’i Citizen Rouya Malakooti Arrested, Eight Others Summoned in Mashhad
Source: www.en-hrana.org On July 29, nine Baha’i women were separately summoned to appear at Mashhad Courthouse, with one among them, Roya Malakouti, ending up arrested after hours of interrogation. The other eight citizens, Roya Ghaneh-Ezabadi,…
Continued Detention and Uncertainty in Case of Baha’i Citizen Sanaz Tafzali
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ms. Sanaz Tafzali (Ruhi), a 45-year-old Baha’i citizen, married mother of two, has been detained in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison for three months without specific charges. As of March…
Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, Baha’i citizen Continued Detainment in Qarchak Varamin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, Baha’i citizen, continues to be detained in Qarchak Varamin prison. HRANA news agency – Armaghan Zabihi Moghadam, a Baha’i citizen, who was arrested Saturday, September 24,…
Nakissa Hajipour, a Baha’i Citizen, Arrested in Mashhad
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Hrana News Agency – This Sunday morning, January 1, Nakissa Hajipour, a Baha’i citizen living in Tehran, was arrested at Mashhad Airport and taken to an unknown location. An…
Jailed Baha’i Couple Barred from Seeing Each Other
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Majid Tavakoli, a well-known student rights activist, was beaten about a month ago while being held in Ward 241 of Evin Prison. News of this beating went viral on social media at…
Another Baha’i Arrested In Iran; Whereabouts Unknown
Source: iranwire.com Iranian authorities have arrested a member of Iran’s long persecuted Baha’i religious minority amid an intensified crackdown on the faith, IranWire reports. Sanaz Tafazuli was driving in her car in the eastern city of…
Arrest of Amin Sharifi, a Baha’i citizen in Mashhad
Source: iranwire.com According to the news, on Tuesday, October 10, security agents raided the house of a Baha’i citizen in Mashhad named “Amin Sharifi” and after searching the house and confiscating some personal and work items,…
Seven Iranian Bahai Women Summoned to Serve Prison Terms for Following Banned Faith
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…
Iran Sentences Five Bahai Women to Total Five Years of Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Nika Pakzadan, Faraneh Daneshgari, Sanaz Ishaqi, Nakisa Hajipour and Naghmeh Zabihian, five Baha’i citizens living in Mashhad, were each sentenced by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court to one…
Baha’is Go to Prison for Praying
Source: www.iranwire.com On the morning of Wednesday, November 14, Dori Amri Esmaeelpour, a Baha’i citizen of Mashhad, presented herself at the city’s Vakilabad Prison to start serving her one-year prison sentence. In 2012 Amri had also…
Baha’i Mother and Daughter Begin Prison Term
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – At 5 p.m. on October 31st, a Baha’i mother and daughter turned themselves in to begin serving one-year prison sentences. Mashhad resident May Kholousi, her daughter Saghi Fadaei,…
Appeals Court Convenes for 4 Baha’i Residents of Mashhad
Source: www.en-hrana.org Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – On August 26, 2018, the Appeals Court of Razavi Khorasan Province met to process the appeal of four Baha’i residents of Mashhad convicted of propaganda against the…
Baha’i Nika Kholousi Released from Mashhad Prison After Serving 5-year Sentence
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – As reported by HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, today, Sunday August 5, 2018, Nika Kholousi, a Baha’i resident of Mashhad, who had…