Religious Minorities in Iran

An Iranian Christian convert was sentenced to 10 months of prison by the Revolutionary Court in Karaj, near Tehran. According to the Mohabat News website, ...

Iran continues to violate human rights against the Baha’i community, as Baha’i student Sina Shakib at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the ...

The homes of 13 Iranian Bahais were raided and searched yesterday, and at least eight people following the banned faith were detained in Baharestan, a ...

Baha’is in Tehran have been made to bury their loved ones not in the space allocated to them in Tehran’s Khavaran ceremony, but in a ...

Iran’s latest attempts to stop Christian TV from entering the country have failed. “We changed our feed to be on a different satellite broadcasting from ...

Iranian Christian convert Majidreza Souzanchi was released from Greater Tehran Penitentiary on April 8, four months early from his prison sentence after testing positive for ...

The state security forces raided the homes of 13 Baha’i citizens today in the Baharestan city in central Iran’s Isfahan Province. Security forces arrested at ...

Three Christian converts were detained by intelligence agents in Dezful southwestern Iran on April 19. According to the Mohabat News website, the three Christians were ...

A Bahai woman was detained by intelligence agents on April 19 in Babol northern Iran. According to the Human Rights News Agency, she was identified ...

In the past days, dozens of Baha’i citizens have been detained or summoned to begin their prison terms over their religious faith. Some have been ...