Religious Minorities in Iran

With the mandate for the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran set to be renewed at the next Human Rights Council session in March...

A group of former Iranian prisoners detained because they had converted to Christianity has issued a statement demanding the right to education for Persian-speaking Christians.

When Kaykhosrov Manuchehri left Iran in 1978, he was just a young child. Now in his 50s, he still hasn't returned, he told The New ...

On January 23, two Baha’i citizens, Farham Sabet and Farzan Masoomi, both residents of Shiraz City, were sent to Adel-Abad Prison to serve their sentence.

Following increasing pressure on Baha’i citizens by security and judicial institutions, the regime ran the second round of a three-day workshop to spread hate against ...

According to reports, a court in Mazandaran province, citing a “fatwa from clerics” which stated that “property ownership by Baha’is is illegitimate,” ruled that the ...

At least 160 cases of kolbar deaths and injuries were reported in Iran's Kurdish populated areas in 2021, according to a report from a human ...

Baha’i citizen Sina Shahri, resident of Tabriz, was arrested by intelligence agents and transferred to an unidentified location.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei believes that his religious guardianship is all-encompassing, covering Shiites and Sunnis, clerics and the masses. Therefore, he sees Sunni scholars ...

On January 11, Natoli Derkshan, a poet and Baha’i citizen, was arrested by intelligence agents at his home in Sari City and transferred to an ...