Religious and Ethnic Minorities

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...

Baha'i student Romina Asgari was expelled from Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, because of her Baha’i faith. Romina Asgari...

A number of Baha’is were arrested on Friday, August 17, for their religious beliefs in Shiraz, southern Iran. They include...

Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor, a website affiliated with Gonabadi Dervish minority,...

Kasra, Puriya and Amir Nouri, arrested along with their mother, Shokoufeh Yadollahi during the February Sufi protests in Tehran, have...