- 1844-08-11 — The Bab sent Mulla `Aliy-i-Bastami to Najaf and Karbala to proclaim His Cause among the Shaykhis. In...
- 1845-01-13 — The trial of Mulla `Aliy-i-Bastami in Baghdad. A fatwa is issued in Baghdad against both Mulla `Aliy...
- 1845-02-27 — The Bab left Jiddah. [MS2]
He disembarked at Muscat and remained there for two months, awaiti...
- 1889-09-08 — Haji Muhammad Riday-i-Isfahani was martyred in `Ishqabad. He had been on of the most prominent Baha'...
- 1924-11-04 — The Supreme Court of Iraq decided against the Baha'is in the dispute over the House of Baha'u'llah i...
- 1937-05-21 — All Baha'i activities and institutions were banned in Germany by a special order of the Reichsführe...
- 1944-08-08 — Three Baha'is were murdered in Shahrúd, Iran, after three weeks of anti-Baha'i agitation. Many Baha...
- 1950-09-00 — Four Baha'is in Iran were arrested on trumped-up charges. The trial lasted until 1954, when the accu...
- 1959-03-01 — A number of Baha'is, members of the local spiritual assembly, were arrested in Ankara, Turkey. [MC30...
- 1961-01-17 — Following the arrest of Baha'is in Turkey in March 1959 and the subsequent court case, the Turkish c...
- 1961-07-15 — The Turkish court declared the Baha'i Faith to be a 'Tarighat', a sect forbidden by the law of the l...
- 1962-10-31 — The 14 Baha'is imprisoned in Morocco were arraigned before the Regional Court of Nador. [BW13:289; M...
- 1962-12-10 — The trial of the 14 Baha'is imprisoned in Morocco on charges of sedition opened. The accused were d...
- 1962-12-14 — The Regional Court of Nador gave its verdict in the case of the 14 Baha'is imprisoned in Morocco on ...
- 1963-04-02 — King Hassan II of Morocco made a public statement promising that if the Supreme Court upheld the dec...
- 1963-11-23 — At the request of the Universal House of Justice, Baha'is around the world prayed at the Feast of Qa...
- 1963-12-13 — The Baha'i prisoners in Morocco were released on order of the Supreme Court. The high drama had run ...
- 1968-01-26 — A Moroccan Baha'i was arrested, tried and convicted on the charges of having abused the sacredness o...
- 1968-10-10 — The widowed mother of seven children was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Morocco for refusi...
- 1968-10-24 — The Moroccan Baha'i, Mr. Allal Rouhani, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in January 1968 a...
- 1968-11-07 — Sixteen Persian Baha'is in Algeria were expelled from the country and their properties confiscated; ...
- 1971-10-13 — Following the banning of Baha'i activities in Egypt in 1960, Egyptian Baha'is submitted a petition t...
- 1974-03-04 — Following the arrest of more than 50 Baha'is in Iraq, their trial opened and the Baha'is were exoner...
- 1974-04-23 — At the trial of nearly 50 Baha'is in Baghdad, the Iraqi military court sentenced 13 men and one girl...
- 1974-05-20 — The Iraqi military court tried nearly 50 Baha'is and handed down in absentia sentences of life impri...
- 1975-00-00 — In Indonesia several Baha'is were arrested, given light sentences and released for violating the 196...
- 1975-01-03 — A Baha'i was arrested in Iraq and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. [...
- 1975-07-00 — In Iraq, a partial amnesty reducing the terms of the Baha'is imprisoned by 15 per cent was granted. ...
- 1975-09-01 — In Iraq, a young Baha'i was detained, interrogated, beaten and asked to recant his faith when he spe...
- 1984-00-00 — Four Baha'is, one of whom had already spent five years in prison, were imprisoned in Indonesia, conv...
- 1985-05-07 — The court hearings open on the cases of the Baha'is arrested in Egypt in February on charges of disr...
- 1985-10-05 — The court cases against the Baha'is arrested in Egypt for contravening the 1960 ban on Baha'i activi...
- 1986-01-21 — The Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar University in Cairo published in a number of newspapers a ...
- 1993-12-08 — In Iran, death sentences were pronounced against two Baha'is on the grounds of their membership in t...
- 1999-04-19 — The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced Sina Hakiman (10 yrs), Farzad Khajeh Sharifabad...
- 2000-02-17 — Iran's Supreme Court rejected death sentences imposed upon Sirus Zabihi-Moghadam, Hadayet Kashefi-Ma...
- 2004-02-07 — The release of Mr. Bihnam Mithaqi and Mr. Kayvan Khalajabadi who had been imprisoned on April 29, 19...
- 2005-12-15 — The death of Mr. Dhabihu'llah Mahrami, 59, who had been held in a government prison in Yazd under ha...
- 2006-04-04 — In late 2004 or early 2005 the government of Egypt introduced a computerized identity card system th...
- 2006-05-15 — In Egypt the government appealed the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Administrative Court and th...
- 2006-09-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court again postponed its hearing on the government appeal of a ...
- 2006-11-20 — In Egypt lawyers representing a Baha'i couple seeking to have their religious affiliation properly i...
- 2006-12-16 — Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled against the right of Baha'is to be properly identified on...
- 2006-12-21 — A message was sent from the Universal House of Justice to the Baha'is of Egypt regarding the recent ...
- 2007-11-12 — Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights released a report that stated tha...
- 2007-12-20 — The two Egyptian Human Rights cases, the first by the father of twin children who was seeking to obt...
- 2008-01-29 — In Egypt a victory for religious freedom, a lower administrative court ruled in favour of two lawsui...
- 2009-03-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court removed any grounds for preventing Baha'is from receiving ...
- 2009-04-17 — With respect to the Supreme Administrative Court decision of 16 March 2009, the decree, dated 19 Mar...
- 2009-05-11 — After a year in jail without formal charges the Baha'i leaders faced an additional accusation, 'the ...
- 2009-07-10 — Iranian officials told the families of the seven Baha'i leaders being held in Evin prison in Tehran ...
- 2009-08-08 — Two young Egyptian Baha'is, Imad and Nancy Rauf Hindi, received the new identity cards. They had bee...
- 2009-08-17 — The trial of seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned in Iran was further postponed until 18 October.
[B...
- 2009-10-18 — Attorneys and families of the seven arrived at court in Tehran for the trial to be told that it woul...
- 2010-01-12 — The trial of Iran's seven Baha'i leaders, Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid...
- 2010-02-07 — Seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders appeared in court for a second session of their trial.
The sessio...
- 2010-04-12 — The seven imprisoned Iranian Baha'i leaders arrived at the court for their third appearance and thei...
- 2010-06-12 — The seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned for more than two years in Iran made their fourth court appearan...
- 2010-07-24 — The imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders in Iran was extended for a further two months after the law...
- 2010-08-08 — The sentence of 20 years in prison was announced for members of the "Yaran-i-Iran" or "Friends of Ir...
- 2010-09-15 — In the face of the chorus of condemnation from governments and human rights organizations around the...
- 2011-03-30 — Six months after Iran's Appeal Court reduced their sentences from 20 to 10 years, the seven Baha'i l...
- 2015-01-08 — The first trial hearing of Hamed bin Haydara was held. Legal and human rights NGOs witnessed tamperi...
- 2016-04-24 — Mr. Hamed Bin Haydara, who had been imprisoned without trial since December 2013, was again brought ...
- 2017-05-12 — The Baha'i International Community launched a global campaign calling for the immediate release of t...
- 2017-07-15 — The men who admitted to stabbing and killing Farhang Amiri, a 63-year-old father of four children, i...
- 2017-09-19 — Mahvash Sabet, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha'is in Iran known ...
- 2017-11-04 — Three young Iranians who complained to state officials after being denied university entrance for be...
- 2017-12-05 — The release of Behrooz Tavakkoli, 66, from prison after serving a 10-year term. He was the third me...
- 2018-01-02 — The Specialized Criminal Court of the Houthi militia in Yemen sentenced 52 year-old detainee Hammed ...
- 2018-02-16 — The release of Saeid Rezaie, one of the seven members of the Yaran, the former leadership group of t...
- 2018-02-20 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, a former member of the Yaran, was transferred from Evin Prison to a hospita...
- 2018-03-16 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, at 85 the oldest member of the Yaran to be imprisoned, was released after s...
- 2018-03-19 — The release of Mr. Vahid Tizfahm from the Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj after having completed his 10...
- 2018-09-15 — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi authorities held a court hearing that targeted some 20 or 24 Baha'is, mos...
- 2019-01-08 — Imprisoned Baha'i Hamed bin Haydara, 55, who had been sentenced to death, appeared in court in Sana...
- 2019-02-19 — Hamed Bin Hayadara, who was facing a death sentence, appeared in a Sana'a court where he was charged...
- 2019-09-17 — The prosecutor in Mr. Haydara's appeal not only restated its support of the lower court decision to ...
- 2019-09-26 — By a resolution of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations the international community condem...
- 2020-03-22 — Houthi-controlled Court of Appeal upheld the preliminary ruling that ordered the execution of Hamed ...
- 2020-03-25 — The Houthi authorities announced the intended release of all Baha'i prisoners in Yemen as well as a ...
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