The Plano Star recently conducted an interview with the wife and son of Farhang Mavaddat, a Baha’i who was executed with two other members of the Tehran Local Spiritual Assembly on trumped-up charges of espionage and insulting religion in 1981. In the interview, Farhang’s wife, Mehri, described the inhumane conditions that her husband was held [...]

Egyptian daily “Al Masry Al Youm” reported a mass exodus of Baha’is from the southern province of Sohag. This comes days after residents of Showraniya (a village located in Sohag province) burnt down the homes of 5 Baha’i families. Baha’ism followers in Shuraniya Village, Sohag, carried out a mass fleeing to Cairo after the village [...]

This article originally appeared in  “Columbia Missourian” Sahba Jalali, a Columbia optometrist, was only 12 when his house in Iran was burned down because his family practiced the Baha’i faith. It was 1978, and the revolution was under way. The Baha’i faith was founded in Iran in the 19th century by Bahá’u’lláh. Baha’is believe in [...]

The denial of ID cards to Egypt’s Baha’is has rendered them virtually non-existent. In a few hours, the first of two final verdicts on whether Baha’is in egypt will be able to obtain ID cards is set to be delivered. Minorities across the world have started blogging in order to document the hardships they experience [...]

The following article is excerpted from a news story that appeared in ‘The Sault Star’. Decades of abuse and denial of denial of basic rights such as education have forced many Iranian Baha’is to leave the country, and the exodus continues to this day. The knock came in the night, shortly after the launch of [...]