Shafaq News / Iranian authorities arrested 10 Bahai women during a series of"horrific" home raids, according to the Bahai InternationalCommunity.
The organization revealed that security forces carried out the arrests"without legal warrants or prior notifications," entering homes byclimbing walls or posing as utility workers. The detained women were subjectedto "humiliating and painful" searches, the organization reported.
The charges against the women accuse them of engaging in "deviant"educational and propaganda activities, acts Iranian authorities claim tocontradict Islamic law. However, Simin Fahandej, the Bahai representative tothe United Nations in Geneva, dismissed the accusations, stating that "thealleged crime is merely serving their local communities."
The Iranian authorities have not commented on the matter until now.
This comes amid the case of Mahvash Sabet, a 71-year-old Bahai writer andpoet, who recently underwent open-heart surgery but faces a potential return toprison to complete her sentence.
Sabet was sentenced to 10 years in December 2022 alongside another prominentBahai figure, Fariba Kamalabadi, and has been repeatedly denied proper medicalcare during her imprisonment, according to Bahais de France. Her lawyer,Chirinne Ardakani, criticized Iranian authorities for "violatingfundamental rights" and employing a "strategy of attrition and slowdeath."
Human Rights organizations expressed concerns over the Iranian authoritiesdealing with minorities including the Bahai community. According to the UnitedNations, at least 70 Bahais are currently detained or serving prison sentencesin Iran, with over 1,200 facing legal proceedings or convictions. Human RightsWatch has classified this ongoing repression as "a crime againsthumanity" since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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