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 [...]

Human Rights Watch has issued a statement about the ongoing persecution of Baha’is in Iran, following the arrest of 13 Baha’is in Iran for alleged connection the Ashoura protests (January 27, 2009). According to the Iranian regime, the Baha’is fomented protests, stored weapons and ammunition in their homes, and sent photographs of protests abroad. These [...]

The following exceptional article by Steven was posted on MideastYouth and we thought the readers of BahaiRights would be interested in it.
The Baha’is: A Tiny Weird Group in Your Backyard
The Bahá’ís have been in the news out of Iran and neighboring regions.
I could go on about the governmental angle but my real focus is the [...]

This week, Iranian authorities rounded up five more Baha’is for alleged connections to the Ashoura protests (December 27, 2009). Some of the arrested are related to other Baha’is currently detained in Iran.
According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), the names of the people arrested are Niki Khanjani, Ashkan Besari, Maria Jafari and [...]

The Indian news channel NewsX recently aired an extensive report about the Baha’is of Iran. The program discusses the trial of the Baha’i 7 (Yaran), the systematic incitement against Baha’is in children’s books , the denial of education of Baha’is, the scapegoating of Baha’is after the post-election turmoil and the history of persecution of Baha’is [...]

By: Behrouz Setoudeh (Iranian political analysts and commentator)
Translation by: M. Rouhani
Monstrous spite of corrupt reactionary Muslim religious rulers against Iran’s Baha’i citizens is nothing new; it has a 150 year history, which has to this date resulted in the execution and displacement of tens of thousands of our Iranian countrymen. After the genocide and mass [...]

The following announcement was published recently by Gooya News, an opposition website, and translated by Iran Press Watch.
Announcement from: the implementation committee of the revolutionary work force organization of Iran (Rah-e kargar).
The court hearing of the Yaran, who are taking care of the affairs of the Baha’i community in the absence of the dismantled [...]

The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) and Fararu.com, a Farsi-language news site, reported about the first hearing in the trial of the seven Baha’i leaders. The first hearing of the trial, which violates the basic principles of a legal due process, was held in the 28th branch of the revolutionary court today.
For the first time, [...]

The semi-official Fars News Agency quoted today the Tehran persecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying that the trial of the recently detained Baha’is of Tehran “will be this week in a revolutionary court in Tehran”. He repeated the absurd charges that the Baha’is were behind the mass protests on Ashura (December 27), and that in [...]