Over the past month sources from Iran have reported about the arrest of four Baha’is, residents of the northern city Nour, and raids on three homes in the town. The first raid took place on the evening of November 3rd, during a gathering at the home of the Razi family to celebrate a Baha’i holiday, [...]

After prolonged detention and a show trial, the seven unofficial leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran were sentenced to 20 years in prison each, according to reports by human rights activists in Iran. After being held for almost two years in the notorious Evin Prison without any charges brought against them or permission to [...]

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 [...]

BBC Persian reported that nine Baha’i citizens were arrested in Tehran today in the early morning hours. According to a report by the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, 13 Baha’is were arrested, but Diane Ala’i, the Representative to the United Nations for the Bahá’í International Community, said that the community can only confirm the arrest [...]

The Iranian regime continues to incite against members of the Baha’i Faith and blame them for the recent violent protests on the day of Ashura (December 27, 2009). Two representatives of Parliament, Fatemeh Alia and Mohammd Ismail Kowsari both of whom are also members of the influential Commission on Foreign Policy and National Security, become [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) published a letter by Mona Rezai, a 20-year-old Baha’i student. Last year, she passed the National Entrance Examinations of Universities and started studying at the Mashhad Sajad University. After completing two semesters, Rezai was summoned to the Department of Student Affairs at the university and questioned [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]