Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Persecution of Baha’is continues in Iran, 20 Baha'is arrested in two weeks Iranian security forces have arrested Hooman Khoshnam, a...

Iranian security forces on Sunday, September 23, arrested seven followers of the Baha’i faith in Isfahan, central Iran. There is...

Six Baha'i community members arrested in Shiraz Six members of Iran's Baha'i community were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry agents...

Shaghayegh Zabihi, an architecture student, was denied her associate degree and the right to continue her studies. Regime authorities have...

At least 47 students have been deprived from pursuing higher education due to their Baha’i conviction. They had participated in...

In the absence of both the defendants and their attorneys, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz has sentenced...

The family of Amin Alizadeh, a member of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority who was arrested in Tehran on June...

Seyed Jamal Mousavinejad, an Azerbaijani Turkic minority rights activist from the city of Sarab, was arrested by security forces on...

In the first hours of Wednesday morning members of the Great Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafuyeh) security units were reported to have...

According to the news published in some sites affiliated with the Sunnis in Iran, on Wednesday morning Aug 22, security...