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Date 2025-12-10, sorted by date, descending

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2025 10 Dec
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Bahar Saba, a senior Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch, in a joint statement with the Bahá'í International Community (BIC) announced that “Iranian authorities are relentlessly persecuting Bahá'ís, depriving them of the most basic human rights in what amounts to ongoing crimes against humanity—solely because of their faith.”

The latest government crackdown, which intensified following the Israel-Iran conflict in June 2025, has involved arbitrary arrests, interrogations, unjust convictions, and imprisonments, as well as property confiscations. Between June and November 2025, the BIC documented more than 750 persecutory acts across Iran, three times the number recorded during the same period in 2024. These incidents include over 200 raids on homes and businesses, followed by interrogations, resulting in the detention and arrest of at least 110 Bahá'ís. Revolutionary Courts held hearings for more than 100 individuals and issued new sentences against Bahá'ís, each ranging from two to ten years in prison. At least 45 people were summoned to begin serving their prison sentences during this period. Among those imprisoned are mothers who have been separated from their young children. [BIC News 10 December 2025; BIC News 18 December 2025; Human Rights Watch 10 December 2025]

* Persecution, Iran; Bahá'í International Community (BIC)
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