HRANA News Agency – Fasrhid Fathi, the Christian citizen and the leader of a home-church is transferred from ward 350 of Evin prison to Rajaei Shahr prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Farshid Fathi, the new converted to Christianity and the leader of a home-church is transferred from Evin to Rajaei Shahr prison, on Tuesday morning. Continue reading “Farshid Fathi, the Christian prisoner is exiled to Rajaei Shar prison”
HRANA News Agency – On the morning of August 20, police searched a home shared by Bahais in the city of Shahin Shahr, in the province of Isfahan.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), they searched the house for several hours, seizing computers, religious books and personal effects, and then arrested five Bahais who were present. Their names are Sa`id Qa’emi, Parviz Gaudarzeyan, Azita Homayuni, Noushin Salkyan and Rashin Shahnazi. Continue reading “Five Bahais arrested, questioned and released in Isfahan Province”
HRANA News Agency – A Sunni teacher was arrested by Iranian security forces last week in Qeshm County, Iran.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Syed Jalal al-Din Rahimi, a Sunni activist and Deputy Head of a school in Dargahan in Qeshm County, was arrested by security forces last week and taken to an unknown location. Continue reading “Sunni teacher arrested in Qeshm, Iran”
HRANA News Agency – Shayan Tafazoli, who was arrested in Mashhad on June 1, 2014, when agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided a Bahai religious meeting, and who was transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence facilities to Vakilabad prison on August 2, is still being held in the prison’s quarantine unit.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mey Khalusi and Dari Amri, two Bahai women who were transferred from the Intelligence Office to Vakilabad Prison on the same day, were moved to the section for female prisoners of conscience on the following day.
The quarantine section is a short-term holding place for new prisoners, and lacks food and medical facilities. Prisoners usually remain there only one or two days.
It is notable that Mr. Tafazoli has not been tried, and the two-month detention order obtained by the Ministry of Intelligence has now expired. An informed Bahai source told HRANA that it is likely that the Ministry of Intelligence is planning to seek a new detention order for him.
Mr. Tafazoli was one of the Bahai youth arrested in February 2012, when police shut down a handicraft exhibition in Mashhad. He was held in Vailabad prison at that time. In July 2012 he was again arrested, and freed some 6 weeks later on bail. On November 27 he was sentenced to 6 months in prison for his handicrafts activities, which the review court reduced to a fine.
HRANA News Agency – Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab, a Bahai shopkeeper from Tehran who is serving an 8-year sentence, and who is held in block 1 of Rajai Shahr prison, which is reserved for dangerous prisoners, was placed in solitary confinement on August 19.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he was moved to the block for dangerous prisoners late in May, 2014: before that he was held with the prisoners of conscience in block 12. Continue reading “Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab beaten and placed in solitary”
HRANA News Agency – There is no news about the condition of a Sunni prisoner awaiting execution in Iran who was taken to an unknown location last week after being beaten by prison guards in Iran’s Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Seddigh Mohammadi, a Sunni prisoner of conscience who suffers from psychological illnesses, was subjected to a brutal beating by guards within the prison last week, leaving him with horrific injuries. Continue reading “Sunni prisoner with psychological illness taken to unknown location”
HRANA News Agency – The administration at the government-run Martyr Khonsari secondary school in Shiraz has refused to enrol the children of Behrouz Farzandi Ardekani because the family are Bahais.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mr. Ardekani is a war veteran who has been classified as having more than 25% disability. Continue reading “Bahai war veteran unable to enrol children at school in Shiraz”
HRANA News Agency – Sunni prisoner of conscience Ghasem Abesteh, who is suffering from a kidney infection, is being deprived of proper medical care by officials at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) in Iran, despite suffering from intense pain in his kidneys that has left him mostly confined to bed and unable to carry out daily activities, the prison infirmary has failed to provide treatment for the infection, instead prescribing only Paracetemol tablets. Continue reading “Sunni prisoner Ghasem Abesteh deprived of medical treatment”
HRANA News Agency – On August 17, Ruhiyyeh Qavami-nik, a Bahai from Karaj, was summoned by telephone to report to the offices of the Ministry of Intelligence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), when she complied, she was arrested, and transferred to Evin Prison in Tehran. Continue reading “A Bahai arrested in Karaj”
HRANA News Agency – Sheikh Dr Abdol Hadi Salehi, a Sunni cleric active in preaching Sunni Islam, was arrested by Iranian security forces on Sunday in Saghez, Kurdistan province of Iran.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the reason for his arrest and detention remains unknown at this stage. Continue reading “Sheikh Dr Abdol Hadi Salehi arrested in Saghez”
