Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Today, Ardeshir Fanaeyan, a Baha’i citizen from Semnan, was transferred to Khash County in Sistan and Baluchestan Province to begin serving his one-year exile. Mr. Fanaeyan…
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Iran intensifies crackdown on Baha’i religious minority
Source: www.yahoo.com Afshin Madadi The Islamic Republic has stepped up its systematic persecution of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority. Authorities of the clerical regime are sending text messages ordering Baha’is to leave places they have owned for decades.…
Confiscation of Property from 22 Baha’i Citizens in Isfahan
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA – Iranian authorities have intensified security and economic pressure on the Baha’i community by issuing judicial rulings to confiscate the property of 22 Baha’i citizens in Isfahan. Officials delivered these orders—citing Article…
Baha’i Citizen Arman Nikaein Arrested in Shiraz
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA News Agency – On Monday, June 23, Arman Nikaein, a Baha’i citizen, was arrested in Shiraz and taken to an undisclosed location. A source close to Nikaein’s family told HRANA that around…
Iranian Security Forces Raid Baha’i Woman’s Home, Seize Electronics
Source: iranwire.com Iranian security forces have raided the home of a Baha’i woman, confiscating electronic devices and religious books. According to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence searched the…
UN Member States raise concern about Baha’is during Iran’s Universal Periodic Review
Source: www.bic.org Geneva—27 January 2025—Iran recently underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR)—a UN human rights review—at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in Geneva. A significant number of UN Member States raised concerns…
Two days before the UN reviews Iran’s human rights record, the Iranian government detains 11 Baha’i women for their faith
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…
Ali Razini’s Campaign Against Baha’i Faith in Mashhad
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti During Ali Razini’s leadership of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court from 1981 to 1985, the persecution of Baha’is took several systematic forms. Under his oversight, the court conducted rapid trials where defendants were…
Baha’i Man Begins Serving Seven-Year Sentence in Iran
Source: iranwire.com Sirus Zabihi Moghadam, a 64-year-old member of Baha’i religious minority, reported to Vakilabad Prison on Monday to begin serving a seven-year sentence on national security charges. The Mashhad Revolutionary Court convicted Moghadam of…
Iranian Baha’i Poet Faces Return to Evin Prison After Surgery
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…
11 years to deny justice: Iranian court rejects legal compensation to family of murder victim killed for his Baha’i beliefs
Source: bic.org Geneva—21 November 2024—Eleven years ago Ataollah Rezvani, a Baha’i man in Iran, was brutally murdered in his car for being a member of Iran’s largest religious minority, the Baha’i Faith. He was shot…
Erased in the shadows: The persecution of Iran’s Baha’is
Source: www.genocidewatch.com Erased in the Shadows: The Targeted Persecution of Iran’s Baha’is Genocide Watch Report September 2024 By Sabrina Nelson Introduction Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, The Islamic Republic of Iran has had a…
Baha’i Citizen Matin Fahandej Saadi Arrested by Security Forces
Source: www.en-hrana.org On August 5, 34 years old Matin Fahandej Saadi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Kerman, was arrested by IRGC intelligence of the city and transferred to an unknown location. A source close to…
2024 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Source: www.uscirf.gov IRAN USCIRF–RECOMMENDED FOR COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN (CPC) KEY FINDINGS In 2023, religious freedom conditions in Iran remained extremely poor. Protests against mandatory hijab laws and other restrictions on freedom of religion or…
10 POLITICAL PRISONERS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH THE BAHAI COMMUNITY IN IRAN FACING INTENSE PRESSURE
Source: narges.foundation Our differences in political views and beliefs have never, do not, and will never obstruct our support for human rights. Silence in the face of oppression only emboldens the regime, making its actions…
Fifteen Baha’i Women Receive Total of 75 Years in Prison
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…
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