While trying to find out more about the Baha’i community in Yemen, we found a 1993 report which stated the presence of 20-30 “underground Baha’is” in northern Yemen. By 1999, the US Department of State’s annual report on religious freedom stated that there were”no longer credible reports of a Baha’i community in northern Yemen”

While browsing through Yemeni websites, we noticed many expressed their distrust of the Baha’i presence in Yemen, and exasperation at the growing numbers (we have been told it is due to Baha’is escaping from persecution in nearby Oman). Some have even went as far as accusing the Baha’i minority of being responsible for a large number of negative reports that are emerging about Yemen.