Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Security forces banned the funeral of a Baha’i man residing in Bukan. According to an informed source, security forces prevented...

At least four porters in the border region in Oromieh were wounded after border forces opened fire on them. According...

Christian prisoner of conscience Amin Afshar Naderi, who is detained in Evin Prison’s Section 4, went on a hunger strike...

Vargha Mahidzad and Shiva Akhlaghi, a Baha’i couple living in Shiraz, were arrested on Monday July 4 by security forces....

Amnesty International Public Statement: The Iranian authorities must immediately reveal the fate and whereabouts of five men from Iran’s Kurdish...

Security forces attacked an the Muslim Eid al-Fitr celebration and arrested 13 people in the Malashieh region in Ahwaz, capital...

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is leading a campaign urging western countries to put religious minorities at the heart...

Rahim Gholami, a poet, writer and journalist living in Ardabil was summoned to the Revolutionary Court in regards to a...

On June 17, the trial for four Baha’is in Mashhad identified as Shayan Tafasoli, Dari Amri, May Kholosi and Saghi...

A 22year old Sunni inmate has been recently sentenced to death on the charge of “waging war to God” by...