Religious and Ethnic Minorities

A Baha'i citizen in Mashhad arrested and transferred to Mashhad Vakilabad Prison, charged with assisting two Baha'i students, including her...

The state security forces raided the home of Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Sunday morning, where he was arrested and taken...

Detained Sufi order members refused to appear in court Sufi women Sepideh Moradi and Shokufeh Yadollahi, refused to appear before...

Sentences for 285 Gonabadi dervishes have been issued by the judges, Salavati and Ahmadzadeh of the Revolutionary Court. According to...

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...