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Persecution of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
Baha’i Student Barred from Higher Education
Shaghayegh Zabihi, an architecture student, was denied her associate degree and the right to continue her studies.…
47 Baha’i students Barred from Higher Education in Iran
At least 47 students have been deprived from pursuing higher education due to their Baha’i conviction.
They had…
Five Shirazi Baha’is Sentenced to Exile in Absentia
In the absence of both the defendants and their attorneys, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz has…
Whereabouts of Imprisoned Dervish Amin Alizadeh Still Unknown
The family of Amin Alizadeh, a member of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority who was arrested in Tehran on…
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…