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Navid Tashakor is detained for his religious identity. 

On December 13, 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Tashakor, a Baha'i citizen, and charged him with “propaganda against the state through educational activities deemed deviant and contrary to or disruptive of Islamic law.”

Previously, authorities detained Tashakor in June 2025 for seventeen days.

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Nayereh Arjaneh is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.

On July 7, 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Arjaneh and her husband at their home for attending a Christian seminar in Turkey. 

The Revolutionary Court of Garmsar sentenced her to 5 years' imprisonment for “promoting deviant propaganda and teachings contrary to Islamic law" and 5 years' imprisonment for "providing financial and material support to groups affiliated with Zionist Christianity." Authorities fined her 225 million toman and ruled she serve her two prison terms concurrently.

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Maria Shahbaz was subjected to forced renunciation of faith. 

On July 26, 2025,13-year-old Shahbaz was abducted by a 30-year-old man near her home, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to her abductor. Police in Lahore delayed the filing of the family's first information report (FIR) and influenced the judge to dismiss their abduction complaint.

On July 31, 2025, the Model Town court of Judicial Magistrate Hassan Sarfaraz Cheema awarded custody of Shahbaz to her captor after accepting falsified documents claiming she was 18 years old. 

In March 2026, the Federal Constitutional Court upheld the decision.