Chronology: Chronology: Date 2025-09-17-01

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2025 17 Sep 202-	Six Baha’i women in Hamadan, western Iran, who have been sentenced to a combined total of 39 years in prison, are facing imminent imprisonment. They were charged and sentenced for their belief in the Bahá'í Faith. The arrests follow a joint statement by 18 United Nations experts who raised the alarm at the “systematic targeting of Bahá'í women, ” flagging the “increase” in these human rights violations and denouncing the “arrests, summoning for interrogation, enforced disappearance, raids on homes, confiscation of personal belongings, limitations on freedom of movement and prolonged consecutive deprivations of liberty.” The six Bahá'í women were first arrested in November 2023, held in solitary confinement for 31 days, which runs counter to international law, and forced to endure prolonged interrogations without access to lawyers or their families. Guilty verdicts and sentences were handed down in April 2024—after which the women appealed the verdicts. The six women are Zarrindokht Ahadzadeh, Farideh Ayyoubi, Noura Ayyoubi, Neda Mohebbi, Jaleh Rezaie, and Atefeh Zahedi. Two of the women, Atefeh and Neda, have children from as young as five years old. [BIC News]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution, Human rights; Hamadán, Iran