Shiraz City Council member Mehdi Hajati made national news in Iran after he was arrested for seeking the release of two Baha'is who were arrested for their faith, which is severely persecuted against in Iran. Hajati, 39, has since been put on "surveillance" and ...
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has heard from her husband after he was put in solitary confinement with seven other Sufi detainees. Faezeh Abdipour said judicial ...
Iranians have taken to social media to call for the freedom of Mehdi Hajati, a member of the Shiraz City Council who was arrested on September 27, 2018, two days after tweeting about his efforts to free two detained members of the Baha’i faith. ...
UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran break its 13-year ban on UN human rights experts visiting the country and allow him ...
Seventeen members of the Baha’i faith were arrested by agents of the Intelligence Ministry throughout Iran between August 23 and September 23, 2018, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Six were arrested in the city of Shiraz, Fars ...
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the international community to directly address ...
Fifty Baha’i students have been expelled from Iranian universities in the current Iranian year (beginning March 21, 2018) because of their religious beliefs, according to Simin Fahandej, a representative of the Baha’i International Community’s Office in Geneva to the United Nations. “This ...
Eighteen Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order are on hunger strike in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) including Zafarali Moghimi, who is in poor health after refusing food for almost five months, according to ...
A number of detained Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order have been kept in solitary confinement or transferred to a ward with dangerous inmates because of participation in a protest crushed by guards inside Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP). ...
Guards in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) attacked and beat detainees inside Ward 3 of the prison on August 29, 2018, and moved some of them into solitary confinement. The detainees are Sufi Muslims belonging to the Gonabadi ...
Four Christians in Iran, including two converts, have appealed their prison sentences for alleged missionary activities, arguing that they’re innocent of the charges. “It is our expectation that the charges will be dropped and their sentences struck down because there is no ...
Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011, expects to be freed on parole “soon,” according to his lawyer ...