Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 June 2024—In a significant statement, 10 Iranian women imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison have honored 10 Iranian Baha’i women imprisoned four decades earlier, in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. The statement echoes the #OurStoryIsOne…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Appellate Court of Fars Province has confirmed the five-year sentences and additional penalties for three Baha’i residents of Shiraz, Sahar Mohebpour, Roksana Vojdani, and Setareh Taami. A source close to the families…
Source: hengaw.net Tahereh Norouzi, a Baha’i adherent residing in Shiraz, Fars Province, has been arrested by security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran and transferred to an undisclosed location. According to a report received…
Source: iranwire.com Payam Vali, a Baha’i citizen imprisoned in Iran’s Karaj Central Prison, was summoned to the Karaj Revolutionary Court on June 6 to face a new charge of “spreading falsehoods.” The court date coincided…
Source: www.iranintl.com Niloufar Goudarzi Former political prisoner Mehdi Mahmoudian has disclosed he is facing two charges, one regarding his comments about the Baha’i minority in Iran and the other for an infestation of bedbugs in…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On May 28, 2024, IRGC Intelligence agents arrested Nazila Khanipour and her son Vesal Heravi, both Baha’i residents of Rasht, and took them to an undisclosed location. A source close to the family…
Source: www.en-hrana.org IRGC intelligence officials have detained Baha’i citizen Sepideh Rashidi (Derakhshan) in Ahvaz, subsequently transferring her to an undisclosed location. This action has significantly heightened her family’s concerns due to the absence of information…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Isfahan Revolutionary Court has sentenced 15 Baha’i women from Baharestan, Isfahan County, to a total of 75 years in prison along with other penalties. The sentenced individuals are Mojgan Pourshafe Ardestani, Nasrin…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Appellate Court of Tehran Province has maintained a nine-year sentence and additional penalties for Baha’i educator Keyvan Rahimian. In a verdict issued by Branch 36 of the Appellate Court of Tehran Province,…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a summons issued by Branch 21 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court on the 4th of April, Ms. Sabeti has been requested to appear within ten days…
Source: www.rferl.org Iran’s judiciary has handed down lengthy sentences to several members of the Baha’i community, the country’s largest non-Muslim group, the latest in a series of acts by the government against the faith’s followers.…
Source: www.en-hrana.org Baha’i citizen Mina Karami continues to serve her five-year prison term in Adelabad prison after the Appellate Court of Fars Province, influenced by the Ministry of Intelligence, recently rejected her request to complete…
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.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.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.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…
