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Jamaloddin Khanjani was detained for his religious association.
On August 13, 2023, security forces apprehended Khanjani and his daughter Maria Khanjani and took them to Evin…
Mohammad Roghangir was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
in October 2012, authorities arrested Roghangir, a member of the Church of Iran, after authorities raided a…
Youcef Nadarkhani was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, intelligence officials in Rasht…
Sevada Aghasar was imprisoned for his religious activity and being associated with religious converts.
In August 2013, authorities arrested Aghasar at the workplace of a friend in…
Majid Kashan was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On November 18, 2017, authorities arrested Kashan at a house-church. Kashan is believed to have been originally…
Pezhman Shahriari was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 17, 2018, authorities arrested Shahriari in Shiraz under unclear circumstances. He was reportedly denied…
Mahboub Habibi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 17, 2018, authorities arrested Habibi in Shiraz under unclear circumstances. He was reportedly denied access…
Farzad Homayouni was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 27, 2017, authorities arrested Homayouni and four others in Isfahan under unclear circumstances. He…
Manouchehr Rahmani was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On January 24, 2017, authorities arrested Rahmani in Isfahan under unclear circumstances. He was reportedly…
Sohrab Naghipour was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 27, 2017, authorities arrested Naghipour and four others in Isfahan under unclear circumstances. He…
Shahnam Jazbani was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 17, 2012, authorities arrested Jazbani and several other Bahá’ís of Gorgan and the surrounding areas of…
Farhad Fahandezh was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 17, 2012, intelligence officials arrested Fahandezh and several other Bahá’ís of Gorgan and the…
Mohammad Ali Mosayebzadeh was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, authorities arrested Mosayebzadeh, a member of the Church of Iran, and several…
Mohammad Reza Omidi was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, authorities arrested Omidi, a member of the Church of Iran, and several others…
Zaman Fadaei was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, authorities arrested Fadaei, a member of the Church of Iran, and several others while performing…
Ebrahim Firouzi was detained for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 8, 2021, authorities arrested Firouzi again after he released videos detailing the authorities'…
Bahareh Zayni was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Zayni following a raid on her home. Her arrest coincided with a…
Foujan Rashidi was imprisoned for her religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Rashidi following a raid on her home. Her arrest coincided…
Saham Armin was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Armin following a raid on his home. His arrest coincided with a…
Bakhtiar Arefi was imprisoned for his religious association and activity.
On January 25, 2015, authorities arrested Arefi, a teacher. A month later, he was released on bail.…
Javad Karimzaei was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2019, intelligence officers reportedly arrested Karimzaei, a student at the Shorshadi religious…
Yalda Firouzian was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On April 30, 2019, authorities arrested Firouzian and took her to an undisclosed location after raiding her home.…
Mahrokh Ghanbari was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In July 2019, authorities reportedly arrested Ghanbari. She was later released on bail. She was reportedly…
Fatemeh Bakhtari was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In May 2017, authorities arrested Bakhtari and her husband, Zaman Fadaei, under unclear circumstances.…
Samin Maghsoudi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 21, 2017, authorities arrested Maghsoudi under unclear circumstances. She was reportedly denied…
Ardeshir Fanaian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 30, 2019, authorities arrested Fanaian and took him to…
Kamal Naamanian was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 15, 2019, authorities arrested Naamanian at a house-church. Other members of the…
Behnam Akhlaghi was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 23, 2019, Akhlaghi was summoned to the Revolutionary Guard office and detained…
Mehdi Khatibi was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 23, 2019, authorities arrested Khatibi at a house-church. Other members of the Church of Iran…
Babak Hosseinzadeh was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 23, 2019, authorities arrested Hosseinzadeh while he was at a house-church. Other members of…
Shahrooz Eslamdoust was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 15, 2019, authorities arrested Eslamdoust at a house-church. Other members of the Church of Iran in…
Khalil Dehghanpur was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On January 29, 2019, authorities arrested Dehghanpur at a house-church. Other members of the Church of Iran…
Mohammed Vafadar was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 15, 2019, authorities arrested Vafadar at a house-church. Other members of the Church…
Hossein Kadivar was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On January 29, 2019, authorities arrested Kadivar at a house-church. Other members of the Church of Iran in…
Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad is detained for practicing his religion as a convert.
On January 15, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Haghnejad, a church leader, in Bandar Anzali for a…
Milad Goudarzi was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In November 2020, authorities raided Goudarzi's home and confiscated his personal belongings, including…
Hadi Rahimi was imprisoned for practicing his faith as a convert.
On May 14, 2020, Rahimi, a member of the Church of Iran, was taken into state custody after being unable to pay bail.…
Mahnaz Jan Nesar was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Nesar and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Maral Rasti was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Rasti and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Arash Rasekhi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Rasekhi and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Mehrallah Afshar was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Afshar and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for…
Nasim Ghanvatian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Ghanvatian and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for…
Fariba Dalir was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In July 2021, authorities arrested Dalir and five other converts from Islam to Christianity, including her at the time…
Saeedeh Khozui was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On April 11, 2022, Khozui was reportedly arrested after appearing at a courthouse.
On May 24,…
Sahba Farnoush was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 15, 2015, security forces arrested Farnoush from his home in Tehran reportedly on the 200th anniversary of…
Ayub Pour Rezazadeh was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In September 2021, authorities arrested Rezazadeh, a member of the Church of Iran, and others in Rasht…
Ahmad Sarparast was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In September 2021, authorities arrested Sarparast, a member of the Church of Iran, and others in Rasht…
Morteza Mashhood Kari was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In September 2021, authorities arrested Kari, a member of the Church of Iran, and others in Rasht…
Amin Zolfaghari was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 21, 2020, intelligence agents arrested Zolfaghari at his home in Yazd.
On June 23, 2020, Zolfaghari was…
Hiwa Yazdan Mehdi Abadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 30, 2020, security forces arrested Abadi in Yazd.
In September 2020, Abadi was released on bail…
Samin Ehsani was imprisoned in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In August 2011, authorities arrested Ehsani, a children's rights activist, after she went to court to resolve…
Shaghayegh Khaneh-Zarin was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On June 26, 2022, security forces in Shiraz arrested Khaneh-Zarin and two others and took…
Negar Ighani was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On June 26, 2022, security forces in Shiraz arrested Ighani and two others and took them to an…
Zhila Sharafi Nasrabadi was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In June 2022, security forces in Shiraz arrested Nasrabadi and two others and took them to an…
Fardin Naddafian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2019, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolution Court reportedly sentenced Naddafian to one year in prison on…
Sholeh Shahidi was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Shahidi and her two sons in Bojnurd, North Khorasan province,…
Faran Senai was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Senai, his mother, and his brother in Bojnurd, North Khorasan province…
Shayan Senai was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Senai, his mother, and his brother in Bojnurd, North Khorasan…
Haleh Gholami was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On January 27, 2017, authorities arrested Gholami, a child rights activist, reportedly in relation to her…
Alhan Hashemi was detained for their religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Hashemi and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their being…
Hanan Hashemi was detained for their religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Hashemi and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their being…
Niloufar Hosseini was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Hashemi and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their…
Shahram Najaf-Tomaraei was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 25, 2015, authorities arrested Najaf-Tomaraei reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i. They…
Nematollah Shadpour was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd arrested three individuals, including Shadpour, reportedly in relation…
Nima Shadpour was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd arrested three individuals, including Shadpour, reportedly in relation to their…
Shafigh Eslami was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd arrested three individuals, including Eslami, reportedly in relation to their…
Behnam Momtaz was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Momtaz in Qazvin after raiding his home.
On August 11, 2022,…
Saha Sabeti was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Sabeti in Sari after raiding her home.
On August 14, 2022,…
Afsaneh Emami was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On February 2, 2019, authorities arrested Emami and searched her home, confiscating books, electronics, and other…
Hamid Naseri was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 11, 2019, authorities arrested Naseri reportedly in front of his business.
On April 26, 2019, …
Saeed Naseri was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 11, 2019, authorities arrested Naseri from his home in Tehran.
On April 17, 2019, Naseri was…
Fariba Kamalabadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Kamalabadi in Tehran after raiding her home.
In…
Houman Khoshnam was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Khoshnam and several other Baha'is in relation to their being…
Elham Salmanzadeh was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On October 16, 2018, authorities arrested Salmanzadeh in relation to her being Baha'i.
On December…
Payam Shabani was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Shabani and several other Baha'is in relation to their being Baha'i…
Kianoush Salmanzadeh was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Salmanzadeh and several other Baha'is in relation to…
Soroush Agahi was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In November 2018, authorities arrested Agahi in relation to his being Baha'i.
In January 2019,…
Parvan Manavi was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On October 16, 2018, authorities arrested Manavi in relation to his being Baha'i.
On December 16,…
Jamileh Pakrou was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Pakrou and several other Baha'is in relation to their being Baha'i…
Peyman Manavi was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Manavi and several other Baha'is in relation to their…
Neda Shabani was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2018, authorities arrested Shabani in relation to her being Baha'i.
In…
Mahboubeh Misaghian was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 1, 2020, authorities reportedly arrested Misaghian and searched her home.
On June…
Homayoun Zhaveh was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In June 2019, authorities arrested Zhaveh and his wife, Sara Ahmadi, as they were on vacation with some…
Sara Ahmadi was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In June 2019, authorities arrested Ahmadi and her husband, Homayoun Zhaveh, as they were on vacation with…
Hengameh Alipour was detained for their religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Alipour, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Negar Darabi was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Darabi, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Golbon Fallah was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Fallah, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Mahsa Fathi was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Fathi, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Nazanin Goli was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Goli, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Mani Gholinejad was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Gholinejad, in Mazandaran province under…
Samiyeh Gholinejad was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Gholinejad, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Bita Haghighi was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Haghighi, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Sanaz Hekmat-Shoar was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Hekmat-Shoar, in Mazandaran province under…
Afnaneh Nematian was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Nematian, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Basir Samimi was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Samimi, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Mojir Samimi was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Samimi, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Sam Samimi was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Samimi, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Anis Sanaie was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 31, 2022, authorities arrested 14 Baha'is, including Sanaie, in Mazandaran province under unclear…
Fariba Ashtari was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On December 2, 2019, authorities arrested Ashtari from her home reportedly in relation to her being Baha'i.
In…
Malihe Nazari was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 30, 2020, authorities arrested Nazari following raids targeting house-churches across several cities…