Religious and Ethnic Minorities

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...

Iran The Revolutionary Court of Bushehr has sentenced a Christian couple and 10 other Iranian Christians to one year in...

Sufi woman Maryam Farsiabi was tried by branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court and sentenced to six months in prison...

Sentences for 39 Gonabadi dervishes have been issued by the Revolutionary Court. They have been sentenced to 208 years behind...