Source: www.bic.org UN Human Rights Council – 52nd Session, March 2023 GENEVA—20 March 2023 Mr. President, Today, women in Iran have become a voice for justice that can no longer be silenced. Not only the…

Source: www.bic.org UN Human Rights Council – 52nd Session, March 2023 GENEVA—20 March 2023 Mr. President, Today, women in Iran have become a voice for justice that can no longer be silenced. Not only the…
Source: www.iranintl.com A group of Iranian civil activists issued a statement protesting “heavy and unfair” sentences against two well-known Baha’i figures. Bahai community leaders Fariba Kamalabadi, 60, and Mahvash Sabet Shahriari, 70, were handed new 10-year…
Source: iranwire.com An Iranian prosecutor has accused a member of the country’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority of having established “extensive” contacts with Persian-language media outlets outside Iran and spreading “propaganda” against the Islamic Republic. Payam Vali,…
Source: iranwire.com The Sunni Friday prayer leader of the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan has urged the country’s Shia clerical leaders to respect the rights of all religious minorities and to stop accusing members of Iran’s…
Source: www.en-hrana.org The Court of Appeals in Yazd Province recently sentenced Baha’i citizens Amin Zolfaghari, Mahboobeh Misaghian, Mitra Bandi Amirabadi and Hiva Yazdan Mehdi Abadi to a total of 32 months in prison. According to HRANA,…
Source: iranwire.com More than a month after the arrest of Arsalan Yazdani, a Baha’i citizen of Tehran, his family has still received no information about the charges or where he is being held. But IranWire understands that on Thursday,…
Source: news.bahai.ca “Of course you don’t have the right to go to university; you are a Baha’i.” That is what Tolou Golkar was told by an Iranian official, after she was arrested and interrogated for her…
Source: en.radiofarda.com Activists say Iranian security forces have raided the homes of dozens of Baha’is in several cities across the country, confiscating their personal belongings. The reason for the raids on November 22 was not immediately…
Source: www.voanews.com By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo WASHINGTON – An Iranian lawyer says a Baha’i woman he represents has become the latest member of the religious minority to begin serving a prison sentence for practicing her faith, deemed…
Source: www.guengl.eu Amidst the global pandemic which has hit countries such as Iran particularly hard, and with Germany taking over the EU Council Presidency, the chair of the European Parliament’s delegation to Iran Cornelia Ernst (DIE LINKE, Germany)…
Source: iran-hrm.com The Revolutionary Court in Iran’s Semnan Province has sentenced three members of the Bahai religious minority to a total of 20 years in jail on national security charges. The Bahais, Ardeshir Fanaian, Yalda Firouzian…
Source: www.radiofarda.com By Saeed Paivandi Translation by Iran Press Watch With the start of the new school year, once again, the media and social networks report on the continuing policy of banning Baha’i students from admission…
Source: www.radiofarda.com By Mahtab Vahidirad Translation by Iran Press Watch News from Iran indicates that over 70 young Baha’i men and women were barred from university education following the announcement of the results of…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Abolfazl Ansari, a Baha’i resident of Mehrshahr in Karaj, was arrested last night by people who identified themselves as law enforcement officers, and was taken…
Source: mbamdadan.blogspot.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Mazdak Bamdadan – Recently, I was invited by the Iran Society in Frankfurt to give a talk about the Shahnameh of Firdawsi. After the talk and the conversation that…
Source: magiran.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Editor’s note: Baha’is are faced with many forms of persecution, including denial of higher education and closure of businesses, which are rooted in a secret 1991 memorandum of the…