Persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran

On February 23, 2010, Human Rights Watch issued the following statement calling on Iran to end its persecution of the country’s Baha’i minority. The Iranian government should immediately stop harassing and arbitrarily detaining members of the Baha’i community, Human Rights Watch said today. The detention of 13 Baha’is on February 10 and 11 follows the [...]

Human Rights Watch again included the persecution of Iran’s Baha’i community in it’s annual report, World Report 2010, which evaluates human rights in 90 countries and territories throughout 2009. Below is an excerpt from the report on Iran, mentioning the situation of the Baha’is: The government continues to deny members of the Baha’i faith, Iran’s [...]

The upcoming trial of seven Iranian Baha’i leaders was mentioned in an editorial published by Voice of America on Sept. 21, 2009, and excerpted below. Another group facing unjust charges are the 7 leaders of Iran’s Baha’i community, the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran. The 5 men and 2 women were arrested in the [...]

Human Rights Watch issued a statement today titled “Iran: Free Baha’i leaders”. The statement calls on the Iranian authorities to release the seven detained Baha’i leaders.

On June 1, 2008, Ms. Souhayr Belhassen, president of FIDH, and Mr. Joe Stork, deputy director, of the Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch, wrote an open letter to President Ahmadinejad expressing concern over the fate of the seven detained Baha’i leaders.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) specifically mentioned the situation of the Baha’is in Iran and in Egypt in its recently published World Report 2008. The report deals with human rights concerns in countries throughout the world.