Persecution of Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Iranian authorities launched a renewed campaign of arrests targeting several Kurdish activists. A teacher, a firefighter and an ordinary man...

Farough Izadinia, a Baha'i scholar and researcher residing in Tehran, was arrested Sunday due to his religious beliefs and transferred...

Two members of Iran’s Baha’i community, Farzan Masoumi and Farhad Sabet, were arrested on Sunday in Shiraz, southwest of Iran....

Three members of Iran's Baha'i community, Ehsan Amiri, Nima Rajabzadeh and Arman Banidi, living in Kerman Province, central Iran, have...

Government officials have confiscated 10 Bahais' property and sealed their shops in Karaj, west of Tehran, during the past week....

A member of Iran’s Bahai community, was expelled from university due to her religious beliefs. Sogol Kazemi Behnamiri, an urban...

Molud Esmaeilpour, father of a Kurdish activist, was arrested when Iran’s intelligence agents   raided  his home on Monday. He was...

Peyman Karami, a 24-year-old Kurdish porter, was shot Tuesday by Iran’s military forces in Kermanshah, west of Iran. He was...

Molavi Abdalvahed Shahnavazi, a 50 year-old Sunni Baluch man, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison on...

Ms. Haleh Gholami, a child rights activist and a member of Iran’s Baha’i community,  was arrested by Tehran security forces...