Persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran

openDemocracy published an article titled “Iran: a faith on trial” by Bernd Kaussler on April 23, 2009, about the persecution of the Iranian Baha’i community.

Members of the national coordinating group of the Iranian Baha’i community arrested in spring 2008 The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) announced today that charges had been laid against the seven imprisoned members of the national-level committee that coordinates the activities for the Iranian Baha’i community. The report quoted deputy Tehran prosecutor Hassan Haddad as [...]

Members of the national coordinating group of the Iranian Baha’i community   On May 14, Iranian intelligence officials arrested six Baha’i leaders and took them to the notorious Evin prison. The imprisonments are ominously similar to episodes in the 1980s when scores of Iranian Baha’i leaders were summarily rounded up and subsequently executed.

NEW YORK April 5, 2007 Baha’i students in primary and secondary schools throughout Iran are increasingly being harassed, vilified, and held up to abuse, according to recent reports from inside the country.