In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Hessam Mishaghi, spokesperson for the Right to Education Committee, most of whose members are in prison right now, spoke of barriers for education for Bahais and students who are active in civil and political activities at universities. He explained in this interview that contrary [...]

Dorsa Sobhani, a member of the 1 Million Signature Campaign, was arrested this morning in Sari, northern Iran. The 1 Million Signature Campaign aims to collect a million signatures to a petition to repeal all the discriminatory laws against women in Iran, while raising awareness about this inequality.
Ms. Sobhani is a Baha’i who was denied [...]

The following are a photos from the Abadan and Khoramshahr cemetery. It was raided during Azar 1388 (early December 2009) and many graves and walls were destroyed.

For more photos see in the Iran Press Watch post in Farsi.

Reports from human rights organizations and the Baha’i International Community show that over the last month, violations of the rights of Baha’is in Iran unfortunately persisted.
Several homes of Baha’is were searched across Iran. On September 27, the house of Sohail Rouhani was searched in Yazd by security forces. They confiscated his computer, cell phone and [...]

Baha’is in Iran are still being raided and arrested by government officials. We are updating our tools to reflect that, you may use the following timeline and map in order to take note of the recent and unfortunate events. Unfortunately Dipity, the service we used to create the timeline, has been having technical glitches causing [...]

HRA Iran reports that on the 4th of February, Saman Sabeti – an active Baha’i in Qaemshahr who was in charge of community affairs – was arrested by officials at the Ministry of Intelligence.
The Ministry of Intelligence summoned and subsequently held a Bahá’í who was in charge of Bahá’í community affairs in the city of [...]

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 [...]

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Observers of the situation in Iran have noted an increase in the intensity of persecution against the Baha’i minority of Iran in recent months. The above map depicts known reports of arrests and raids since October 2008 that have come to our attention. Arrests are denoted with a red placemark, while raids (which [...]