Topic: Baha'I
Canada called on Iran Tuesday to release on bail seven Bahai leaders sentenced to 20 years in prison on espionage and other charges, condemning the persecution of the Bahai community in Iran as "intolerable and deeply troubling." Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said ...
LONDON (Reuters) - An Iranian court has sentenced seven leaders of the Bahai faith to 20 years in prison after charging them with espionage and engaging in propaganda against Islam, two Bahai activists said Monday. Iranian media reported in January this year ...
Iran has sentenced seven leading members of its Bahai religious minority to 20-year jail terms, French and US members of the faith told AFP on Monday. The United States and the European Union had criticised Iran's detention of the Bahai members, and ...
The United States denounced Iran on Friday over its detention of seven leaders of the Bahai religious minority who have been held for two years. The United States "is deeply concerned about the ongoing persecution" of both Bahais and other religious minorities ...
The United States is "increasingly concerned" over the persecution of the Bahai and other religious minorities in Iran, a State Department spokesman said Friday. "The United States is increasingly concerned about the Iran's ongoing persecution of Bahais and other religious minority communities," ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States voiced growing concern on Friday about Iran's "ongoing persecution" of religious minorities, including Baha'is, and called on Tehran to protect human rights at home. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement that at least ...
Mother's letter to Iran supreme leader: son of opposition figure harshly beaten inside mosqueThe wife of one of Iran's opposition leaders accused the nation's supreme leader Sunday of allowing violence and abuses to crush opposition supporters, including the alleged beating of her ...
Report: Iran detains 5 more members of Baha'i minorityIranian authorities detained five more members of the Baha'i minority, a hardline newspaper reported on Sunday. The daily Javan newspaper, which has ties to the elite Revolutionary Guards, reported that the five included Niki ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will soon put on trial 16 people arrested in connection with anti-government protests that turned violent last month, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Friday. Fars did not identify the defendants but said one was accused of ...
7 Baha'i followers go on trial in Iran on charges of spying, endangering national securitySeven members of Iran's Baha'i minority went on trial on Tuesday on charges of spying and acting against the country's national security, state media reported. According to state ...
