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Persecution of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
Azerbaijani Activist Arrested and Transferred to Sarab Prison
Seyed Jamal Mousavinejad, an Azerbaijani Turkic minority rights activist from the city of Sarab, was arrested by…
Prison authorities attacked Dervish community inmates
In the first hours of Wednesday morning members of the Great Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafuyeh) security units were…
Sunni Muslims Banned from Holding Eid al-Adha Prayers in Tehran
According to the news published in some sites affiliated with the Sunnis in Iran, on Wednesday morning Aug 22,…
Baha’i student expelled from university for religious beliefs
Baha'i student Romina Asgari was expelled from Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, because of her Baha’i…
Iran’s Security Forces Arrest Baha’is in northern city of Shiraz
A number of Baha’is were arrested on Friday, August 17, for their religious beliefs in Shiraz, southern Iran. They…
Dervish activists sentenced to long prison terms by notorious judge
Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor, a website affiliated…
Dervish family members receive heavy punishment
Kasra, Puriya and Amir Nouri, arrested along with their mother, Shokoufeh Yadollahi during the February Sufi…
Iran Sentences 12 Members of Church to prison for practicing Christianity
Iran The Revolutionary Court of Bushehr has sentenced a Christian couple and 10 other Iranian Christians to one…
Sufi woman Maryam Farsiabi tried after six months in jail
Sufi woman Maryam Farsiabi was tried by branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court and sentenced to six months in…
208 years behind bars, 1554 lashes and 10 years of exile for detained Dervishes
Sentences for 39 Gonabadi dervishes have been issued by the Revolutionary Court. They have been sentenced to 208…