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 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 the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]