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| 2025 22 Jan
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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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