Source: iranwire.com An Iranian Baha’i citizen named Parisa Sadeghi has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of membership of the Baha’i faith, IranWire has learned. An informed source told IranWire that Branch 36 of…
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Eight Baha’is Jailed in Bandar Abbas
Source: iranwire.com Eight Baha’i citizens living in Bandar Abbas and Shiraz have been summoned to the Bandar Abbas Penal Enforcement Unit to begin serving their sentences.The notices issued to the eight, whose sentence was upheld at…
Bahai Family Sentenced to a Total of 7 Years in Prison in Tehran
Source: irannewswire.org The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced three members of a Bahai family to a total of seven years of prison yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the three Bahais were identified…
Sentencing of Eight Baha’is Sets Dismal New Legal Precedent
Source: iranwire.com On February 2, 2021, Branch Two of the Hormozgan Court of Appeal upheld the prison sentences of eight Baha’i citizens. The court, presided over by Judge Mashaleh Afsharpour and Counsel Ebrahim Mohammadi, rejected the…
Five Baha’is Summoned to Covid-Hit Prison
Source: iranwire.com Five members of the Iranian Baha’i community living in Mashhad have been summoned to Vakilabad Prison to begin serving their sentences. According to an informed source who spoke to IranWire, that the names of…
Weekly Review of Censorship: A Baha’i Historian Jailed Because of His Faith
Source: iranwire.com Niloufar Rostami Touraj Amini, an Iranian writer and researcher of the Qajar era and Constitutional movement who is also a Baha’i, was taken to prison on January 29, to serve a six-month prison sentence…
Three Baha’i Citizens Sentenced To Prison In Iran
Source: iranintl.com The attorney of three Baha’i citizens reported that each of them has received a sentence of four years and three months in prison. Attorney Mohammad Hadi Erfanian tweeted on Friday that Sepideh Keshavarz, Mahvash…
Iran Sentences 2 Bahai Women to 10 Years of Prison
Source: irannewswire.org A Revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced two Bahai women to five years of prison each for following the outlawed faith yesterday. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the two women, identified as Sofia Mobini…
Iran Sentences Nine Baha’is to Prison
Source: iran-hrm.com An appeals court in Iran has sentenced nine Baha’i citizens to a total of nine years in prison for being members of their religious minority. According to the verdict issued by the Branch 36 of…
Source: Iran Sentences 8 Baha’is to Prison, Other Punishments After ‘Unfair’ Trial
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – Iran has sentenced eight of its Baha’i citizens to prison terms and other punishments according to an informed source, in the latest example of the Islamist-ruled nation’s…
Baha’i Citizen Living in Kerman Transferred to Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Vahda Silani, a Baha’i citizen living in Kerman, was arrested on Sunday, December 13, 2020, after appearing in the Revolutionary Court of this city. She…
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…
More Baha’is Begin Serving Prison Sentences in Iran Simply for Their Beliefs
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Farid Zirgi Moghaddam began serving his five-year sentence in the central prison in the city of Birjand, in South Khorasan province in eastern Iran, on October 19, 2020—a prison sentence that was based solely…
Baha’i Shahnaz Sabet Transferred to Adelabad Prison in Shiraz to Serve Her Sentence
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Shahnaz Sabet, a Baha’i citizen living in Shiraz, was arrested this morning, Monday, October 13, and transferred to Adelabad Prison in Shiraz to serve her…
Source: Iran Rejects Baha’is’ Appeal to Avoid Prison with Coronavirus Risk
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – A group of Iranian Baha’is summoned to begin prison terms for practicing their faith were denied an appeal to delay their incarceration at a jail where they would risk…
Rajai Shahr Prison: Farhad Fahandezh Transferred to Solitary Confinement Because of Positive Corona Test
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ Farhad Fahandezh, a 61-year-old Baha’i prisoner, has been transferred to one of the solitary confinement cells at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj today, Thursday, October 1, as his…
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