Source: bic During the European Parliament plenary debate on the resolution, Member of the European Parliament Helmut Brandstätter highlights Mahvash Sabet’s case Brussels—4 April 2025—The European Parliament has passed an urgency resolution on Iran, expressing its concern…
Source: www.iranintl.com Iranian civil society organizations convened in Geneva on Monday to present evidence of human rights violations in Iran with a focus on the persecution of Baha’is. The session, held during the UN Human…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Today, Saturday, the sentence of Tahereh Nowrouzi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Shiraz, was enforced. She will serve her sentence with movement restrictions outside…
Source: www.bic.org Geneva—22 January 2025—The Islamic Republic of Iran’s latest outrage against the Baha’is of Iran occurred early this morning when security forces arrested eleven Baha’i women, without arrest warrants or prior notification, in a…
Source: iranwire.com United Nations human rights experts have expressed concern over the increasing systematic persecution of women from Iran’s Baha’i religious minority. The experts report that Baha’i women, who make up two-thirds of all Baha’i…
Source: bic.org 18 UN Experts jointly call attention to systematic targeting, widespread arrests, and ongoing violations against Baha’i women, highlighting intersectional discrimination and denial of fundamental rights Geneva—20 January 2025—A group of 18 United Nations…
Source: www.iranintl.com Prominent Baha’i poet Mahvash Sabet, 71, may soon be sent back to Evin Prison in Tehran following open-heart surgery, sparking alarm among human rights organizations and activists. The Baha’i International Community has urged…
Source: bic.org Geneva—23 December 2024—Mahvash Sabet, a 71-year-old Iranian Baha’i prisoner of conscience jailed by the Islamic Republic for over 13 years for her beliefs—who has previously been denied proper medical care in prison, despite…
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Anisa Fanaian, a Baha’i resident of Semnan, was sentenced to 8 years in prison by Branch 7 of the Court of Appeals in this province. In the court…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s calls for national unity and equal rights at the UN General Assembly stand at odds with the ongoing systematic persecution of religious minorities in Iran. During his…
Source: www.bic.org New York—11 November 2024—A major new report, Outsiders: Multifaceted Violence Against Baha’is in the Islamic Republic of Iran, has just been launched in New York, exposing the violence inflicted on the Baha’is during 45…
Source: iranhumanrights.org Over 1,200 Facing Court Proceedings or Sentenced to Prison for Practicing Faith November 5, 2024 – The Islamic Republic has intensified its crackdown on the Baha’i community, the country’s largest unrecognized religious minority, with…
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Informed sources told Radio Farda that ten Baha’i women sentenced to lengthy prison terms by the First Branch of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court, presided over by Mohammadreza Tavakoli,…
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Branch One of the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Tavakoli, issued heavy sentences for 10 Baha’i citizens, sentencing them in the primary court to long-term imprisonment, millions…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Fifteen Baha’i citizens from Baharestan, Isfahan, have once again been tried in the First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Isfahan. Previously, this case had been returned from the Isfahan Court of Appeals…
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Anisa Samiian, a Bahá’í citizen whose several family members have been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment and other deprivations, shared details of the sentence issued for her mother,…
