The following roundup, based on translations from Iran Press Watch and reports from the Committee of Human Rights Reporter, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, Human Rights Activists in Iran, the Baha’i World News Service and Iran Human Rights Voice show the extent of ongoing persecution in Iran. It includes harassment, death threats and arsons [...]

This July, a Baha’i citizen of Kazakhstan was arrested by authorities in Uzbekistan for spreading the teachings of the Faith. He was sentenced to 15 days in prison followed by an expulsion from the country without a right to return. A recent news article published in gorizont.uz, which is sponsored by National security service of [...]

Below is a translation of a recently published report on the Egyptian news portal Bab.com
Al-Qaradawi: the marriage of a Muslim man to a Baha’i woman is wrong
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, President of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars, issued a formal legal opinion (fatwa) that it is illegal for a Muslim man to marry a Baha’i [...]

A recent visitor in Ardestan, Isfahan province took these photographs that show insulting graffiti sprayed on Baha’i houses. These messages were written on the walls of Baha’i houses all around town. Some of the houses were sprayed with messages of “impurity” (Nejaasat) of the residents, others said “this is an official house of the spies [...]

This is a translation of an article that recently appeared in the Egyptian weekly magazine Rosa Al-Yousef:
Freedom of belief and the Arab mind dilemma
By Pastor Rif’at Fikri Sa’yid
Issue number 4238 of Rosa Al-Yousef’s magazine, released on 29 August 2009, contained a unique and bold article about freedom of belief, and I thought of providing my [...]

The Egyptian paper Al Youm conducted an interview with A’adel Ramadan, a lawyer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, who represents the Baha’i families whose houses were burned down this March in the southern village of Shuraniya. The rioters, incited by anti-Baha’i calls on Egyptian TV, surrounded the area where the Baha’is lived in [...]

The American Public Radio International (PRI) recently reported about the Baha’i community in Egypt, following the implementation of the court ruling that allowed Baha’is to leave the religious affiliation field in their IDs blank.
PRI interviewed several members of the community, including Dr. Raouf Hindi, the Baha’i whose battle in court to allow his daughters to [...]

The following post is a translation of this article in Arabic about the Baha’i Faith in Lebanon which appeared in the al-Nahar newspaper.
A congregation under suspension…with no clergymen (men of religion), of sons who do not belong to any political party… and Islamists call for their eradication
On the seventh day of last June, during the [...]

Some of our frequent readers may remember Foad from the interview we conducted with him a few months ago. To quote a piece of that interview:
My name is Foad. I was born in one of the little towns of the Mazandaran province, which is located in Northern Iran in June 1987 (month of Khordad, year [...]

The Bahá’í World News Service reports that at least 33 Baha’is are imprisoned in jails all across Iran and more than 200 cases of Baha’is are still active.
The persecution of Baha’is in Iran continues unabated. Human Right Activists in Iran (HRAI) have recently reported about the arrest and disappearance of Sohrab Leghaii, a Baha’i citizen [...]