Religion News in Brief Seven members of Iran's Baha'i minority are on trial on charges of spying and acting against the country's national ...
7 Baha'i followers go on trial in Iran on charges of spying, endangering national security Seven members of Iran's Baha'i minority went on ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has released a German citizen arrested during anti-government riots on December 27 and plans to free a detained Syrian journalist, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Tehran General Prosecutor Abbas Jafari ...
Members of Iran's outlawed Bahai faith have been arrested in connection with recent anti-government protests and some weapons were seized, IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor as saying on Friday. "They were arrested because they played a role in organising the ...
Members of Iran's outlawed Bahai faith have been arrested in connection with recent anti-government protests and some weapons were seized, IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor as saying on Friday. "They were arrested because they played a role in organising the ...
Iran has arrested more than 180 people in recent days, including journalists, students and human rights campaigners, following anti-government protests late last month, a banned opposition website said on Wednesday. Rahesabz named 92 people rounded up, including 10 aides to opposition leader ...
Iran lifts ban on popular daily after it ran photo of Baha'i temple, reports news agency An Iranian news agency reports that the judiciary has after just a day lifted its ban on a popular newspaper which ran a photo of a ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A popular conservative newspaper critical of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been closed down for carrying a photograph of a temple of the banned Baha'i faith, media reported on Tuesday. At the same time, the publishers of another daily, ...
Iran on Monday shut down a best-selling newspaper, Hamshahri, for carrying a picture of a temple belonging to the outlawed Bahai sect, the official IRNA news agency reported. The press watchdog "banned Hamshahri over carrying a picture of the Bahais' temple and ...
At least 50 people were arrested in Egypt on Thursday for demonstrating against the suspected rehousing in their villages of people thought to be from the Bahai religion, a security official said. In April, all the Bahais from the southern village of ...
Iran will put on trial seven members of the banned Bahai religion on charges of spying for arch-foe Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. "The trial of seven arrested Bahais accused of espionage for Israel and insulting sanctities will ...
US panel responds to former Iran prisoner Saberi, demands Iran release 7 religious prisoners A U.S. government agency is demanding that Iran release seven Baha'i prisoners rather than submit them to trials on charges of spying for Israel and religious charges. The ...
