Source: thebaptistpaper.org Religious freedom and human rights conditions in Iran — which already were bleak — have “sharply deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported in an update released Sept. 11. “State violence in Iran…
Source: iranhumanrights.org UN and International Community Must Spotlight Cases, Demand End to Escalating Oppression 180 Reports of Baha’is Targeted by State Security Forces in Last Year August 17, 2023 – The escalating surge of arrests,…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti In a coordinated and organized operation on July 31, 2022, agents of the Intelligence Ministry raided the homes of tens of Baha’is in cities across Iran and arrested a number of Baha’is including…
Source: www.en-hrana.org On July 29, nine Baha’i women were separately summoned to appear at Mashhad Courthouse, with one among them, Roya Malakouti, ending up arrested after hours of interrogation. The other eight citizens, Roya Ghaneh-Ezabadi,…
Source: iranwire.com Officials from Behesht Zahra, Tehran’s main cemetery, have sparked fresh outrage by burying the body of a deceased Baha’i, Abbas Manavi, without the consent or knowledge of his family. To compound the distress,…
Source: www.state.gov May 16, 2023 On May 15, the State Department released its annual report on religious freedom. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the Iranian government for the crackdown on protesters. “People across Iran,…
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch “They have always talked about many lost rights of the Baha’i community, such as the right to education and the right to work, but they have…
Source: iranwire.com Updated 18 April IranWire has received a photo of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence agent, Masoud Momeni, who the Baha’i International Community said yesterday is “preventing and disrupting” the burial of Baha’is at…
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…
