During the summer of 2022 alone, authorities raided dozens of Baha’i homes and arrested at least 30 people, among them Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet, two prominent members of the Baha’i community both of whom previously spent 10 years in prison. On May 22, 2022, in an oral statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council, Simin Fahandej, a BIC representative said, “More than 1,000 Baha’is in Iran are in “limbo” between their initial arrests, their legal hearings and their final summons
Seven members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Jamaica were among some 1,250 delegates, representing 176 countries around the world, who assembled in Haifa, Israel on Saturday for the election of.
Although the Baha’i faith was founded and long centered in Iran, it has experienced varying degrees of persecution under each successive Iranian government.