Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Zafar Ali Moghimi a member of Iran's Gonabadi Sufi minority has been on hunger strike since 100 days ago to...

Baha'i woman, Sogol Zabihi, 21 has been banned from continuing her undergraduate degree because of her Baha’i faith. The sophomore undergraduate...

Four Gonabadi women dervishes who have been imprisoned in Qarchak Prison since February 20, 2018, were sentenced to a total...

Sentences for nine suspected dervishes in the 3rd brigade of the Great Tehran Penitentiary has been issued by the judges,...

Fatemeh Mohammadi, a 19-year-old who has just become a Christian Nun, was arrested in October 2017 and was sentenced to...

After four months of extensive human rights violations of the detainee dervish women and the lack of supervision of the...

Female Dervish prisoners went on hunger strike following an onslaught and organized violence that was done by the prison’s guards...

Gonabadi Dervish women imprisoned in Qarchak Prison of Varamin were severely beaten on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, by special prison...

On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, a number of Arab residents in Kouye Alavi and Molashisheh, Ahwaz were arrested by the...

Iran officials ban Kurdish clothes and language in public places Kurdish people are banned from wearing their traditional dress in...