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2025 18 Jan
202-		 Two Supreme Court judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, both clerics with the clerical rank of hojjat ol-eslam, were shot dead in Tehran in a rare deadly attack on senior officials which remains largely unexplained. Both were frequently referred to as "hanging judges" for the sentences they passed on political dissidents, activists, followers of the Bahá'í faith, dissident clerics, and those accused of security-related "crimes." They were primarily remembered for their roles in the mass executions of 1988 which targeted members of the MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq) and, to a lesser extent, leftist prisoners. These executions, which began in July, were carried out based on two orders issued by Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Many of the victims were teenagers or people in their 20s, serving prison sentences as political activists, with no history of armed actions against the government. [Iran International 18Jan25; Iran International] * Persecution, Iran
2025 20 Jan
202-		 The Joint Report on the Human Rights Situation in Egypt was released by the group Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE), an independent organization working to defend human rights, focusing on supporting and advocating for the rights of people on the move.It was a joint report on mounting human rights in which thrirteen rights groups presented recommendations to the Egyptian government as the UN review of its rights record approached
  • The report can be found here.
    		• Egypt; Human rights; Persecution, Egypt
    2025 22 Jan
    202-    		 Iranian security forces arrested eleven Bahá'í women without arrest warrants or prior notification in a series of shocking home raids. Security agents reportedly scaled walls, coerced neighbors, and posed as utility workers to force entry into the women’s homes, subjecting them to distressing and invasive searches. Neighbors were intimidated into silence and children in the homes were left traumatized by the operation. Several of these women were mothers of young children and infants or were caregivers to aging parents, seemingly a preferred demographic for victims of this sort of persecution.

    The incident came just two days before Iran’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where the country’s systematic persecution of the Bahá'ís is expected to be scrutinized. [BIC News 22 January 2025]

    		* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Human rights; Women; Womens rights
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