In 3 days, Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court is set to deliver its final ruling on whether Egypt’s Baha’is can obtain official documents with the mandatory religion field left blank.
For the third (and hopefully last!) time, a worldwide prayer chain in solidarity with the Baha’is of Egypt has been organized for the 1st of February. The [...]

در ماه‌های اخیر دستگیری بهائیان در ایران شدت بیشتری گرفته است. هم اکنون دوازده بهایی در زندان‌های ایران بیمار هستند و هیچگونه امیدی برای برگزاری یک دادگاه عادلانه ندارند. طبق گزارشات بدست آمده آنها به دلایل بزهکاری، دزدی و یا قتل بازداشت نشده‌اند بلکه در حقیقت آنها رهبران و فعالان اجتماعی و آموزشی بوده‌اند که [...]

Human Rights Activists in Iran reports that officials from Mashhad’s Ministry of Intelligence have raided ten Baha’i homes, and confiscated personal belongings and religious texts and items.
The Department of Intelligence visited the home of ten Bahais and subsequently arrested two of those visited.
In an organized and systematic manner, the Iranian Security Forces, after [...]

In recent months, Iran has escalated its campaign of arrests against Baha’is. Dozens of Baha’is currently languish in prisons, with no hope of being accorded a fair trial. Those reportedly arrested weren’t criminals, thieves or murderers but were in fact community leaders, social activists and educators who strove to serve their communities.
The Iranian regime has [...]

Many Muslims hold misconceptions and erroneous beliefs on the beliefs and practises associated with the Baha’i Faith. Amongst the most widely believed misconceptions is that Baha’is worship Baha’u’llah as a deity,and that Baha’i texts disparage the Qur’an and Islam and that the Baha’i Faith condones incest.
With these claims being circulated by respected scholars and clerics, [...]

Ali Reza Jamshidi, spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, has stated that six Baha’is were arrested in Iran and added:
“These people were not arrested for their faith. The six Bahais are accused of insulting religious sanctities”
The spokesman has not revealed the identities of the arrested six, or the date of their detention. It should be noted though [...]

In the light of Iran’s intense persecution of Baha’is, many Iranian Baha’is who were forced to flee the country have taken to exposing Iran’s heinous crimes and raising awareness on the suffering their friends and family face back home.
Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh, a young Baha’i from New Zealand, has taken an innovative approach to achieve that aim: [...]

From Religious Intelligence:
The Anglican Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham has raised the plight of seven leaders of the Baha’i community imprisoned and threatened with execution in Iran.
The British Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown described the situation as “an extraordinary attack on freedom of religion” in Iran.
Bishop George Cassidy asked at question time in the House [...]

Human Rights Activists in Iran has posted pictures of the complete destruction that has befallen the Baha’i cemetery in Qaemshahr. The first attack against the cemetery occurred on the 23rd of October, where almost 80% of the graves were destroyed by bulldozers, and less than 2 weeks later, a second attack was carried out.
In yesterday’s [...]

Human Rights Activists in Iran has released a report detailing the abuses carried out against Iran’s Baha’i minority in the year 2008. The report is categorized by cities.
Given the increasingly difficult situation of Baha’is in Iran, and an increase in the number of arrests, searches and destruction of Baha’i cemeteries, and also the fact that [...]