Category: Religious Minorities

Four Baha’i high school students arrested

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Armin Allah Verdi, Ramin Amiri, Sina Fanaiyan, Younes Khanjani

HRANA News Agency – The Etela’at agents of Semnan in a rare act arrested four Baha’i students without informing their families.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the Etela’at agents of Semnan entered Shahid Beheshti and Amir Kabir high schools with permission from administration of education, arrested four Baha’i students in classroom and transferred them to Semnan Etela’at. The arrested students are Sina Fanaiyan, Armin Allah Verdi, Ramin Amiri and Younes Khanjani. Continue reading “Four Baha’i high school students arrested”

Two Christians are in detention for more than seven weeks

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Tehran

HRANA News Agency – About seven weeks ago plainclothes security agents arrested Shahrzad Y and Sam S, two of converted Christians community in Tehran.

According to a report of Mohebbat News, security agents arrested the two converted Christians on January 9th of 2013 at 11 a.m.

Both of them arrested at the same time in different places.

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Two Baha’i Citizens Arrested in Nour, Iran

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Bayan Babaie, Sheyda Ta'ieed

[Bayan Babaie, left – Sheyda Ta’ieed, right]

HRANA News Agency – Security forces arrested a Baha’i citizen with her guest at her home and searched her house.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Security forces searched Sheida Ta’ieed’s home and arrested her and her guest Bayan Babaie on Monday, January 21, 2013.

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Banning the bail of Saied Abedini and threatening it’s provider

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Evin, Saied Abedini

HRANA News Agency – The illegal Evin prosecutor banned the bail for Saied Abedini the Iranian-American pastor.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), also the islamic revolutionary guards interrogators threatened the person who tried to put bail to prevent this prisoner’s furlough.

Saied Abedini is the Iranian-American who is accused to establishing home-church in 2009 and after his arrival to Iran in 2012 has been arrested by islamic revolutionary guards Etela’at and transferred to ward 2A.

More than eighty US senators from both Democrat and Republican parties on Thursday February 14th wrote a letter to John Kerry the United States Secretary of States and asked him to try to do all what is needed for freedom of Saied Abedini the Iranian-American pastor.

Iran: Baha’i Couple Arrested in Urmia

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Farahnaz Moghadam, Fardin Aghsani

HRANA News Agency– Security forces inspected living and working places of a Baha’i couple and arrested them.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Security forces first inspected the working place of “Fardin Aghsani” and arrested him on Wednesday, January 30, 2013.

At the same time, intelligence ministry officers went to his house and after searching his house, seized his personal things such as books and photos related to Baha’i faith. They arrested his wife, Farahnaz Moghadam, and transferred them to an unknown place.

The detainees had a phone call to their families and there is no more information about them.

 

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Baha’i Farmland Confiscated

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Ahmad Ahmadzadeh

May 27, 2010

HRANA – In April 2010, the Lands and Assets Headquarters of Mazandaran, A Division of Sepah (the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), based on the Imam’s Decree, confiscated five thousand meters of land in Ghaemshahr that belonged to the late Mr. Ahmad Ahmadzadeh. The confiscation took place while the heirs of the deceased were using the land for farming.

Religious Persecution of Baha’i Gifted and Talented Students

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HRANA – The Ministry of Education of Iran has implemented a new policy, which discriminates further against Bahá’í school students.

In the past, Bahá’í students were allowed to take the entrance exam for schools for gifted and talented students and in the cases of acceptance they would be denied admission based on their religion. Recently, the Ministry has added religion to the registration form for taking the entrance exams. The options include Muslim, Christian, Jew, and Zoroastrian, which deprives Bahá’í students right at the inception.

As it was reported previously in October 2009 Miss Shadan Shirazi of Tehran, despite occupying the first position in the female competition, was prevented from registering at Javan Research Institute, a school for gifted students, because of being a Bahá’í. Miss Shirazi attempted to take the exam again this year and due to the new policy was denied registration for the entrance exam. Similarly Miss Noura Sabet of Tehran has been unable to register for the exam.


Anissa Fanaiyan arrested for enforcement of verdict

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Adel Fanaiyan, Afshin Eyghani, Anissa Fanaiyan, Behfar Khanjani, Erfan Ehsani, Goudarz Beydaghi, Manizheh Nasrollahi, Neda Majidi, Pouya Tebyaniyan, Roufia Beydaghi, Shohreh A'zami, Siamak Eyghani, Taraneh Torabi, Zhinous Nourani, Zohreh Nik Aien

HRANA News Agency –  Anissa Fanaiyan, Bahai’e citizen, resides in Semnan arrested for the enforcement of verdict.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Today morning, Saturday 20th of January, Anissa Fanaiyan (Eyghani) the Bahai’e citizen and who resides in Semnan summoned, arrested and transferred to Semnan prison for enforcement of the verdict.

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Dr. Foad Moghaddam, one of the Baha’i university heads imprisoned

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Foad Moghaddam

HRANA News Agency– Foad Moghaddam, a Baha’i citizen and one of the Baha’i online university heads in Esfahan, introduced himself to Shahid Moghaddasi court in Evin prison on Thursday morning to spend his 5 years imprisonment.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Foad Moghaddam, arrested on the wide invasion in purpose of arresting related people to the online Bahai’e university in Esfahan, on May 22nd of 2011 arrested and after 35 days was been freed by bail.

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Saied Abedini, the christian citizen will be trialed by judge Pir’abbas

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Saied Abedini

HRANA News Agency – Saied Abedini, a 32 years old converted christian who has double nationality of Iran-USA is in detention of Etela’at of Islamic revolutionary guards since 3 months ago and will be trialed in branch 26 of revolutionary court on
January 20th.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), this christian prisoner on September 26th, while he was waiting for his summon to court, has been arrested at his home by 5 security agents.

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