Iran has arrested at least nine more members of the Baha’i faith, the country's largest non-Muslim community, and raided the homes of 20 Baha’i families in the western Iranian city of Hamadan, sources told RFERL’s Radio Farda.
Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a hospital for urgent medical care after she launched a hunger strike to protest moves by prison officials to twice block her access to hospital care because she would not wear a head scarf.
Iran has sentenced French national Louis Arnaud, whose family says he was traveling in the country as a tourist, to five years in prison on national-security charges.
Behrouz Chamanara, a professor at Kurdistan University in western Iran, was arrested, interrogated, and ultimately dismissed after the authorities suspected he and other professors were pushing students to participate in antiestablishment protests.
The lawyer of an Iranian yoga instructor charged with "propaganda against the sanctities of Islam," has died during his trial at Tehran's Revolutionary Court.