Source: www.en-hrana.org The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha’i citizen Badi Khazei to six years in prison. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Baha’i citizen Badi Khazei was sentenced to six years in…
Monthly Archives For January 2023
The Forouhars: A Baha’i Couple Executed for Their Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The name Forouhar reminds most Iranians of Dariush Forouhar, the prominent nationalist politician who, with his wife Parvaneh, were assassinated in 1998 in what became known as the Chain Murders of intellectuals and critics of…
Iranian Baha’i Arrested, Whereabouts Unknown Amid Crackdown On Faith
Source: iranwire.com Iranian authorities have arrested a member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority amid an intensified crackdown on the faith, IranWire reports. Security forces went to Yashar Rasti’s home in the southern city of Shiraz…
Iran Urged To Free Baha’i Poet “Unjustly” Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
Source: iranwire.com The Australian chapter of PEN International, a freedom of expression group, has strongly condemned the detention of award-winning Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she is being held in solitary confinement,…
Iranian Sunni Cleric Says Rights Of Baha’is, Other Minorities Must Be Respected
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…
Remembering a Baha’i Scientist Executed for Her Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On December 27, 1981, eight Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the…
Nakissa Hajipour, a Baha’i Citizen, Arrested in Mashhad
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Hrana News Agency – This Sunday morning, January 1, Nakissa Hajipour, a Baha’i citizen living in Tehran, was arrested at Mashhad Airport and taken to an unknown location. An…