Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA ‒ Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Sophia Mobini and Negin Tadrisi, two Baha’i citizens. They had previously been sentenced by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary…
Monthly Archives For March 2021
Four Baha’is Returned to Bushehr Prison at End of Furlough
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA – Today, Saturday March 7th, Minoo Riazati, Ehteram Sheikhi, Farideh Jaberi and Assadollah Jaberi, four Baha’i citizens, returned to Bushehr Prison at the end of their furlough. In March of last year,…
RWCHR Statement Condemning Iranian Persecution of Baha’is
Source: www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns the continued persecution of the Baha’i community in Iran. Notes from a local government meeting calling for increased control of Baha’is were leaked publicly by…
Iran Revolutionary Court Sentences Four Baha’is to 12 Years Prison
Source: iran-hrm.com A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced four followers of the Baha’i faith to a total of 12 years in prison. The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mona Mehrabi, Elham…
Iranian Government Orders Teachers to Identify Children of Persecuted Baha’i Minority
Source: www.yahoo.com Verity Bowman The Iranian government is ordering teachers to identify children of the persecuted Baha’i minority to convert them to Islam, leaked documents show. The move forms part of a plan to intensify the monitoring…
Discrimination Against Baha’is in Iran; ‘I Did Not Write Baha’i Anywhere, but the Ministry of Intelligence Knew’
Source: www.bbc.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Ivan Mohajer “This year, when the results of the national exam were announced, the answer for me and my family was predictable, “Incomplete application.” Many of my friends had…
Six Baha’is Arrested in Bandar Abbas
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Baha’i citizens in Bandar Abbas have recently faced increasing pressure from security forces In the latest case, six Baha’is have been subjected to an illegal judicial process and jailed just days before the…
Persecution Of Baha’i Citizens Intensifies In Iran’s Mazandaran Province
Source: iranintl.com Two human rights organizations announced that according to a classified document that they have acquired, the Islamic Republic officials have intensified their monitoring and restrictions over citizens of Baha’i faith in Iran’s northern province…
Exposed: Sinister Plan by Iranian Authorities to Monitor and Suppress Baha’is
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—10 March 2021—The Baha’i International Community (BIC) is appalled by the contents of an official Iranian directive which instructs local authorities in the city of Sari, in the northern province of Mazandaran, to “conduct…
Wide-Reaching Solidarity Expressed With Baha’is Facing Persecution in Iran
Source: news.bahai.ca The court-ordered confiscation of properties from 27 Baha’i families in the farming village of Ivel, Iran, has been answered by wide-reaching solidarity from all corners of Canadian society. This outpouring of support has been…
Iran: Leaked Document Reveals Plans to Intensify Suppression of Baha’is and Other Religious Minorities
Source: www.fidh.org Joint FIDH-LDDHI Statement The League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) has received a copy of the minutes of a “top confidential” meeting held on 21 September 2020 in the city of…
Baha’i in Iran — Repressed and Persecuted by the State
Source: www.dw.com It’s no secret that the Baha’i community in Iran faces far-reaching oppression. Now, DW has gained access to a policy paper that appears to show the extent to which the repression is state-sponsored. The…
#ItsTheirLand: Unprecedented reaction makes voice of persecuted Bahá’ís in an Iranian village global
Source: news.bahai.org BIC GENEVA — A global campaign in support of the persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran has generated an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity from officials at the United Nations and the European Union, statesmen, government officials, religious figures…
Farmers, Agricultural Scientists, Policy Makers Address Iran’s Chief Justice and Minister of Agriculture
Source: news.bahai.org SYDNEY — Farmers as well as agricultural scientists and policy makers from Australia, Africa and North America have joined the global outcry at the unjust confiscation of lands belonging to Bahá’í farmers in…