Imagine an Iran where Baha’is are free to practise their faith. Imagine an Iran where Baha’is proudly proclaim their identity, without fear of retribution. Imagine an Iran where the National Spiritual Assembly is an active entity in leading the country towards progress. Imagine an Iran where the government actively seeks to protect Baha’i cemeteries and [...]

On the 27th of June, 1980, Bahar Tahzib’s father was executed in Iran for no other than being a Baha’i. This wasn’t an isolated incident, but a part of a wide and systemic crackdown on the country’s peaceful Baha’i community in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Tahzib’s family finds itself once again reliving the [...]

The situation of the Baha’i community in Iran is critical, as expressed in this urgent message from the Freedom to Believe Foundation: Statement on Critical Situation of the Baha’i Community in Iran The week of May 12th has been one of great importance to the international Baha’i Community. Friends from countries and territories all over [...]

In a breakthrough verdict, Cairo’s Administrative Court issued a ruling to allow Baha’is to leave their religious affiliation field blank on official documents. This in effect would allow them access to education, health care and allow them to enjoy their rights as citizens. The verdicts were handed down in the cases of the teenage twins [...]

Prof. Leonard Lewisohn is the Lecturer in Persian, at Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter in England. Recently he posted the following notice on an internet list of Persian studies scholars and due to the significance of this issue for human rights in Iran, we wish to share his posting [...]

According to the Turkish Daily News: The Baha’i community in Turkey wants official recognition from the state and desires the elimination of prejudices and inaccurate public descriptions of their faith. The Baha’i faith has around 10,000 members in Turkey. [...] Rights once given to them between 1960 and 1990 were taken away when the Interior [...]

About a year ago, 54 Baha’i youth were arrested in Shiraz, Iran, on charges of serving the poor in dispossessed areas surrounding the city by carrying out social-economic assistance. It was announced that three of them, Raha Sabet, Sasan Taghva and Haleh Rouhi, were sentenced to prison for four years. The remaining youth were sentenced [...]

The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, 20 November 2007, passed a resolution (A/C.3/62/L.43) condemning Iran’s appalling human rights record. In this resolution, the General Assembly expressed “its very serious concern” at a whole range of egregious human rights violations, including torture, flogging, amputations, public executions, stoning, execution of minors, violent action [...]

Earlier today it was learned that Feizollah Roshan [Faydu‘llah Rushan] was imprisoned yesterday in the town of Sari, Iran. He was arrested last November and subject to intense interrogations spanning two months. Eventually, in spring of 2007, he was freed on bail, but had received a sentence of 1-year imprisonment and 4-years of exile. The [...]

The Baha’i Faith in Egypt blog provides links and summaries from international media outlets that recently reported on what the author considers a “deplorable situation facing the Egyptian Baha’is.” The author also addresses several crucial issues: 1) These cases concern real people whose rights are being violated and who continue to suffer on a daily [...]