- 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...
- 1845-02-28 — The Bab returned to Búshihr. He sent Quddús to Shiraz with a letter addressed to His uncle Haji Mi...
- 1845-04-16 — Mulla `Aliy-i-Bastami was removed from his prison cell in Baghdad and taken to Istanbul, where he wa...
- 1845-06-24 — After expelling Mulla Husayn and Mulla Sadiq the governor of Fars, Hasayn Khan-i-Irvani ordered that...
- 1845-06-30 — At Dalaki, some 40 miles northeast of the Búshihr, the Bab met the soldiers of the governor of Fars...
- 1845-12-30 — The Bab's birthday fell on the first day of the mourning observance for the Imam Husayn. Tahirih, wh...
- 1846-06-23 — Quddús met Mulla Sadiq-i-Muqaddas in Shiraz to whom he entrusted a copy of Khasa'il-i-Sab`ih (`the ...
- 1846-07-00 — The Chief Constable, 'Abdu'l-Hamid Khan, was instructed by order of the governor, Hasayn Khan, to br...
- 1846-12-00 — Mulla `Aliy-i-Bastami died in Istanbul naval dockyards. He was the first martyr of the Babi Dispensa...
- 1847-09-00 — The murder of Haji Mulla Muhammad Taqi, the powerful uncle of Tahirih, by Mulla `Abdu'llah of Shiraz...
- 1847-10-00 — Tahirih was accused of instigating the assassination of her uncle, Muhammad Taqi Baraghani, and was...
- 1847-11-00 — Baha'u'llah, who was living in Tihran, visited the detainees from Qazvin and gave them money. [BKG41...
- 1848-07-17 — The Babis left Badasht for Mazindaran. They were attacked by a mob of more than 500 outside the vill...
- 1848-09-04 — The death of the chronically ill Muhammad Shah whom Shoghi Effendi described as bigoted, sickly and ...
- 1848-12-19 — The siege of the Shrine of Shaykh Tabarsi began in earnest with the arrival of `Abdu'llah Khan's for...
- 1849-02-02 — Soon after midnight, Mulla Husayn led a charge of 313 men that again routed the king's army. He was ...
- 1849-05-10 — The end of the siege of the fort at Shaykh Tabarsi. Two hundred and two Babis were tricked into leav...
- 1849-05-16 — Quddús was tortured and, in the public square, he was struck down with an axe, dismembered and burn...
- 1849-06-00 — The Bab, in prison in the castle of Chihriq, learned of the massacre at Shaykh Tabarsi and the marty...
- 1850-02-19 — The Babi group in Tehran had been infiltrated by an informer who betrayed about fifty of its members...
- 1850-02-20 — Martyrdom of the Seven Martyrs of Tihran. Seven of the Babis were executed in Tihran on the false ch...
- 1850-04-00 — The house of Vahid in Yazd was attacked by crowds and pillaged. The crowd was dispersed by Mulla Muh...
- 1850-05-00 — The start of the Zanjan upheaval. Hujjat had converted a sizeable proportion of the town and tension...
- 1850-05-16 — Martyrdom of Shaykh Muhammad-i-Túb-Chi in Zanjan, the first of the martyrs. [BBR115; DB542–3]...
- 1850-05-19 — The Governor sent a mob against Hujjat, (Mulla Muhammad-Ali) which was dispersed by Mir Salah. The G...
- 1850-05-27 — First Nayriz upheaval. Vahid traveled from Yazd towards Shiraz, eventually coming to Nayriz. He went...
- 1850-06-17 — At Nayriz, Vahid received a message from the Governor offering a truce and a promise of safety writt...
- 1850-06-24 — The severed heads of 13 Babis arrived in Shiraz from Nayriz. They were raised on lances and paraded ...
- 1850-06-29 — Vahid was martyred in Nayriz. [Bab182; BW18:381; DB495, 499; GPB42; RB1:265]
See DB494 for detai...
- 1850-07-08 — The Bab, divested of His turban and sash, was taken on foot to the barracks in Tabriz. Mirza Muhamma...
- 1850-07-09 — Martyrdom of the Bab
In the morning the Bab was taken to the homes of the leading clerics to obt...
- 1850-08-25 — The arrival of 'Aziz Khan-i-Mukri, commander-in-chief of Iran's army, in Zanjan where the fighting b...
- 1850-10-03 — Two of Vahid's companions were executed in Shiraz....
- 1851-03-02 — Four Babis brought from Zanjan were executed in Tihran. [BW18:382]...
- 1851-04-30 — Mulla Hasan-i-Fadil was executed in Yazd when he refused to recant. [BW18:382]...
- 1851-05-01 — Áqa Husayn was blown from a canon in Yazd. [BW18:382]...
- 1851-07-23 — Áqa Muhammad-Sadiq-i-Yúzdarani was beaten to death in Yazd after refusing to recant. [BW18:382]...
- 1851-08-04 — Áqa 'Ali-Akbar-i-Hakkak was blown from a canon after refusing to recant. [BW18:382]...
- 1851-11-00 — Siyyid Basir-Hindi, a blind Indian, was put to death by Ildirim Mirza. [BW18:382]
For details of...
- 1852-08-15 — "In the hecatomb of 1852-1853 the ranks of the Babis were drastically thinned.
Most of the leading
- 1852-08-16 — The martyrdom of Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn) in Tihran. [BBR172–3; BBRSM:30; BW18:382; BKG87; MF203] ...
- 1852-08-18 — A large number of Babis were arrested in Tihran and its environs following the attempt on the life o...
- 1852-08-22 — After the initial executions, about 20 or more Babis were distributed among the various courtiers an...
- 1852-08-26 — An account of the punishment meted out to those who participated in the attempt on the life of the S...
- 1852-08-30 — In Milan, Iran, 15 Babis were arrested and imprisoned. [BW18:382]
Many Babis were tortured and k...
- 1852-08-31 — Baha'u'llah's imprisonment in the Siyah-Chal
See AB10–11, BBD211–12, BKG79–83, CH41–2, ...
- 1853-03-26 — Five Babis, acting on their own initiative, murdered the governor of Nayriz, providing the spark for...
- 1853-10-00 — Second Nayriz upheaval. [BBR147–51; BBRSM:217; BW18:382; DB642–5;]
The new governor of Nayri...
- 1853-10-31 — Some 600 female and 80 to 180 male Babis are taken prisoner at Nayriz and marched to Shiraz, along w...
- 1853-11-24 — The prisoners from Nayriz and the heads of the martyrs arrived in Shiraz. More Babis were executed a...
- 1862-00-03 — Haji Mirza Haydar-`Ali and six other prominent Baha'is were arrested in Cairo for being Baha'is at t...
- 1866-12-00 — About a hundred Baha'is were arrested in Tabriz following a disturbance in which a Babi is killed. [...
- 1867-01-11 — Three Baha'is were executed in Tabriz. Their arrest was precipitated by conflict and rivalry between...
- 1867-01-31 — Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, a Baha'i physician, was executed in Zanjan. [BBR253; BKG238; BW18:383]Áqa Naja...
- 1867-04-00 — The appeal by 53 Baha'is "in Baghdad" addressed to the United States Congress arrived at the America...
- 1867-09-05 — Persecutions began anew in Ádharbayjan, Zanjan, Nishapúr and Tihran. [GPB178]...
- 1868-04-00 — Seven Baha'is in Constantinople were arrested and interrogated by a commission of inquiry whose mand...
- 1868-07-00 — Principal Baha'is in Baghdad were arrested by the Turkish authorities and exiled to Mosul and other ...
- 1868-07-21 — Mirza Abu'l-Qasim-i-Shirazi was arrested in Egypt and money extorted from him. [BBR257–8; BKG243; ...
- 1868-08-01 — Mulla Muhammad-Rida, Rida'r-Rúh was poisoned in Yazd. [BW18:383]...
- 1869-00-00 — The 17-year-old Áqa Buzurg-i-Nishapúri, Badi`, arrived in `Akka having walked from Mosul. He was a...
- 1869-07-00 — Badi` delivered the Tablet of Baha'u'llah to the Shah. He was tortured and executed. [BBRXXXIX; BKG3...
- 1869-12-25 — A mob attacked the Baha'is in Faran, Khurasan, Iran, and two were severely beaten. [BW18:383]...
- 1870-00-00 — Nasiri'd-Din Shah maded a pilgrimage to the shrines in Iraq. In preparation for his visit the Baha'i...
- 1870-00-00 — In Zanjan, Áqa Siyyid Ashraf was arrested, condemned to death as a Babi and executed. [BWG470]
H...
- 1875-00-01 — The `ulama arouse the rabble against the Baha'is in Sidih, Isfahan. Several Baha'is were imprisoned,...
- 1876-00-01 — Six Baha'is were arrested in Tihran and imprisoned for three months and 17 days. [BW18:383]...
- 1880-00-00 — Martyrdom of seven Baha'is in Sultanabad. [BW18:383]
Three Baha'is were killed on the orders of S...
- 1882-00-00 — Mirza `Ali-Muhammad Varqa was arrested in Yazd. He is sent to Isfahan where he was imprisoned for a ...
- 1882-12-31 — The Tihran Upheaval.
A number of leading members of the Tihran Baha'i community were arrested and...
- 1883-00-00 — Six Baha'is were arrested in Yazd and sent to Isfahan in chains. BW18:383]
Four Baha'is were arre...
- 1883-03-19 — Sixteen Baha'i traders of the bazaar were arrested in Rasht; three others are brought from Lahijan. ...
- 1885-03-27 — Martyrdom of Mulla `Aliy-i-Namiqi in Namiq, Turbat-i-Haydari, Khurasan. [BW18:383]...
- 1887-00-00 — Karbala'i Hasan Khan and Karbala'i Sadiq were arrested in Sarvistan, Fars, and imprisoned for two ye...
- 1888-07 — Two Baha'is were arrested in Sarvistan, Fars, and were sent to Shiraz, where one was imprisoned. [BW...
- 1888-10-23 — The martyrdom of Mirza Ashraf of Ábadih in Isfahan. He was hanged, his body burnt and left hanging ...
- 1889-07-18 — The Baha'is were persuaded to leave the Telegraph Office in Isfahan after being assured that they wo...
- 1889-08-00 — Baha'is of Sidih and Najafabad, after having received no help or protection, went to Tihran to petit...
- 1889-09-08 — Haji Muhammad Riday-i-Isfahani was martyred in `Ishqabad. He had been on of the most prominent Baha'...
- 1890-00-02 — Haji Ákhúnd, Haji Amin and Ibn-i-Abhar were arrested. Haji Ákhúnd was imprisoned in Tihran for t...
- 1890-02-25 — Seven Baha'is from Sidih who had gone to Tihran to petition the Shah for protection, secured a decre...
- 1890-08-00 — Mulla Hasan and his two brothers were arrested and beaten in Sarchah, Birjand. [BW18:383]...
- 1891-05-19 — The execution of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd. [BBRXXIX, BW18:384]
Seven Baha'is were executed on the ...
- 1891-05-20 — Baha'u'llah revealed the Lawh-i-Times, Tablet to the Times in which He recounted the circumstances o...
- 1891-10-03 — Mulla Muhammad-`Aliy-i-Dihabadi was martyred, one of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd who were killed at th...
- 1893-06-17 — Áqa Muhammad-Riday-i-Muhammadabadi was killed by three men on the orders of two of the `ulama of Ya...
- 1896-00-03 — Baha'is in Hisar, Khurasan were persecuted and imprisoned. [BW18:384]...
- 1896-00-04 — Áqa Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Yazdi was martyred in Tabriz. [BW18:384]...
- 1896-00-05 — Mulla Hasan Khaza'i was arrested in Khúzistan. [BW18:384]...
- 1896-05-02 — The martyrdom of Hand of the Cause of God Varqa ('Dove'), Mirza 'Ali-Muhammad. (b.1856 in Yazd, d. i...
- 1896-06-00 — Several Baha'is were beaten and four were imprisoned in Turbat-i-Haydari when two mujtahids stirred ...
- 1896-07-21 — Haji Muhammad Sadiq was stabbed to death in Turbat-i-Haydari. [BW18:384]...
- 1896-07-24 — Four Baha'is were executed in Turbat-i-Haydari on the order of the mujtahid. [BW18:384; BBR405]
B...
- 1897-00-00 — Fifteen Baha'is were arrested in Saysan, Ádharbayjan. They were taken to Tabriz, imprisoned and fin...
- 1897-02-00 — Six Baha'is were arrested in Mamaqan, Ádharbayjan. Three were bastinadoed and three were imprisoned...
- 1898-00-04 — Several Baha'is were arrested and imprisoned in Qazvin. [BW18:384]Haji Muhammad was set upon and kil...
- 1898-04-00 — Nine Baha'is attending a Ridvan meeting were arrested, beaten and imprisoned in Hamadan. [BW18:384]...
- 1898-06-01 — Áqa Ghulam-Husayn-i-Banadaki was killed by a mob in Yazd after refusing to deny his faith. [BW18:38...
- 1901-00-00 — William Hoar, one of the first Baha'is in America, was asked by `Abdu'l-Baha to meet with the Persia...
- 1901-05-00 — Ghulam-Rida was killed in Najafabad. [BW18:385]...
- 1902-00-02 — In Shiraz, Haji Abu'l-Hasan was beaten so severely on the order of the mujtahid that he died a few m...
- 1902-03-18 — Áqa Muhammad-Zama-i-Sabbagh and Siyyid Ja`far were executed in Isfandabad and Abarqú, Fars. Severa...
- 1903-05-03 — Upheaval at Rasht. [BBRXXX, 373]
See ...
- 1903-05-23 — Upheaval in Isfahan: Muhammad-Javad-i-Sarraf seized was by students of Aqa Najafi and beaten severe...
- 1903-06-08 — Baha'is in Malayir, Hamadan, are attacked, beaten and imprisoned. Two are killed. [BW18:385]...
- 1903-06-14 — The Yazd Upheaval and in surrounding villages. [BBRXXX]
See ...
- 1903-09-00 — At the request of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Haji Mirza Hadar-'Ali wrote Baha'i Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year ...
- 1904-00-00 — The publication of Baha'i Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year 1903 AD by Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali Isfahani...
- 1905-03-30 — Haji Kalb-`Ali was shot and killed in Najafabad. [BW18:386]...
- 1906-06-00 — Baha'is in Sangsar, Khurasan, were persecuted such that they took refuge in the hills. [BW18:386]...
- 1906-10-00 — Several Baha'is in Sangsar and Shahmirzad were killed or injured by bullets; six Baha'is were arrest...
- 1907-00-00 — Hajar, an elderly Baha'i woman, was shot dead in Nayriz. [BW18:386]...
- 1907-01-19 — The accession of Muhammad-`Ali Shah to the throne of Iran. He reigned until 1909. He attempted to re...
- 1907-04-25 — Karbala'i Sadiq was martyred in Tabriz. [BW18:386]...
- 1908-00-00 — `Ali Ádhari was martyred in Kirman. [BW18:386]...
- 1909-03-00 — The third upheaval in Nayriz. Eighteen or nineteen Baha'is were brutally assassinated in Nayriz whe...
- 1909-04-01 — Baha'is of Namiq, Khurasan, were attacked and Kad-khuda Isma'il was killed. [BW18:386]...
- 1909-04-22 — Three Baha'is are killed in Hisar, Khurasan, and their wives seriously injured. [BW18:386]...
- 1909-07-28 — Baha'is in Namiq, Khurasan, were killed. [BW18:386]...
- 1909-11-08 — Haji Haydar, a leading Baha'i of Najafabad, was shot and killed at Isfahan. [BBR432]
BRXXX and BW...
- 1910-09-20 — Muhammad-Ja`far-i-Sabbagh was martyred at Najafabad. [BW18:387]...
- 1911-08-23 — `Abdu'l-Baha took up residence at Thonon-les-Bains on Lake Leman (Lake Geneva). [AB140; GPB280; SBR2...
- 1911-08-23 — 'Abdu'l-Baha went for a carriage ride in the nearby hills. ["With 'Abdu'l-Baha in Switzerland" by Ju
- 1911-08-28 — In the morning 'Abdu'l-Baha's visitor was Sultan-Husayn Mirza, the eldest son of Zillu's-Sultan. Bet...
- 1912-00-00 — Mirza Muhammad-`Ali and his wife were killed in Barfurúsh (now called Babol), Mazandaran. [BW18:387...
- 1912-01-03 — In Sari, Mazandaran, a mob attacked houses of Baha'is and four Baha'is were killed; a few days later...
- 1912-02-04 — Two Baha'is were killed in Mahfurúzak, Mazandaran. [BW18:387]...
- 1913-12-00 — Áqa Abu'l-Qasim-i-Isfandabadi was killed by two assailants in Qúzih-Kúh, Bavanat, Fars. [BW18:387...
- 1914-08-27 — Áqa Mirza Yúsif-i-Qa'ini was killed in Mashhad. [BW18:387]...
- 1915-00-03 — Mirza Husayn-i-Huda was martyred in Urúmiyyih. [BW18:387]...
- 1915-03-14 — Shaykh 'Ali Akbar-i-Qúchani was shot to death in Mashhad. Considerable anti-Baha'i agitation follow...
- 1916-02-22 — In Sultanabad, Mirza `Ali-Akbar, his wife, his sister-in-law (aged 12) and their four children (aged...
- 1916-07-28 — Mulla Nasru'llah-i-Shahmirzadi was martyred in his home in Shahmirzad, Khurasan. [BW18:387]
...
- 1917-02-17 — A mob in Najafabad disintered the bodies from two Baha'i graves. A general agitation against Baha'is...
- 1917-05-02 — The martyrdom of Mirza Muhammad-i-Bulúr-Furúsh in Yazd. [BBRXXX, BBR443]...
- 1918-03-15 — Áqa Mirza Javad, I`timadu't-Tujjar, was shot in Bandar Jaz and the houses of the Baha'is were loote...
- 1920-00-00 — Mirza Ibrahim Khan, Ibtihaju'l-Mulk, was martyred in Rasht at the hands of the Jangalis. [BW18:387] ...
- 1920-05-21 — The execution at Sultanabad of Haji `Arab by hanging. [BBRXXX, 444-6; BW18:387]...
- 1920-09-00 — The tombs of the King of Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs in Isfahan were demolished by a mob. [BB...
- 1920-10-02 — Mirza Mustafa was killed at Farúgh, Fars, and other Baha'is were imprisoned. [BW18:387]
He was a...
- 1921-01-23 — Mirza Ya`qúb-i-Muttahidih was assassinated in Kirmanshah. [BBRXXX, 446-50; BW18:387; GPB299]
H...
- 1921-07-00 — Baha'is of Zoroastrian background were harassed by the Zoroastrian agent in Qum. [BW18:388]...
- 1921-10-20 — Áqa Siyyid Mustafa Tabataba'i was poisoned in Sangsar. Continual agitation prevented the burial of ...
- 1924-03-09 — Two Baha'is were imprisoned for several months in Maraghih, Iran, after two mullas stirred up troubl...
- 1924-04-02 — Baha'is in Turbat-i-Haydari, Iran, were attacked; some were arrested and imprisoned and others were ...
- 1924-04-05 — Shaykh `Abdu'l-Majid was beaten to death in Turshiz, Khurasan, Iran. [BW18:388]...
- 1924-06-22 — Aqa Husayn-`Ali was martyred in Firúzabad, Fars, Iran. [BW18:388]...
- 1924-07-18 — American Vice-Consul Major Robert Imbrie was murdered in Tihran for being a Baha'i, which he was not...
- 1924-11-04 — The Supreme Court of Iraq decided against the Baha'is in the dispute over the House of Baha'u'llah i...
- 1925-05-10 — A Muslim Court in Egypt pronounced the Faith to be an independent religion. [BBRSM173; BW2:31;BW3:49...
- 1926-00-01 — Opposition to the Faith began in Russia. [BW3:35; BBR473]
For details see BW3:34–43....
- 1926-00-04 — For most of the year severe restrictions were placed on the Baha'is of Maraghih in Ádharbayjan, the...
- 1926-04-07 — Eight or perhaps as many as twelve Baha'is were beaten to death in Jahrum, Fars, Iran. [BW18:388, SE...
- 1926-06-29 — Three Baha'is were martyred in Zavarih, near Isfahan. [BW18:388]...
- 1926-07-12 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada made representations ...
- 1926-08-06 — The Shah of Iran was asked to "stay the slaying of Baha'is." The Press notice of the appeal to the S...
- 1927-03-25 — Áqa 'Abdu'l-'A'zim, Aminu'l-'Ulama' was martyred in Ardibil, Iran, by the order of the mujtahid. [B...
- 1927-06-19 — Karbala'i Asadu'llah-i-Saqat-furúsh was martyred in Kirman, Iran. [BW18:388]...
- 1928-04-00 — As part of a general anti-religious campaign launched under Stalin, the Soviet authorities abrogated...
- 1928-10-00 — A newspaper campaign of opposition to the Baha'is began in Turkey. [BBR474]
Several Baha'is were ...
- 1928-12-13 — The case arising out of the newspaper persecution of the Baha'is of Turkey was brought before a crim...
- 1932-00-00 — The Iranian government introduced measures against the Baha'is throughout Iran. Restrictions were pl...
- 1932-06-10 — The American National Spiritual Assembly addresseed a petition to the Shah of Iran requesting that t...
- 1932-08-15 — Keith Ransom-Kehler met the Iranian Court Minister Taymur Tash. [BW5:392]
She presented the Ameri...
- 1932-11-00 — A number of Baha'is were arrested in Adana, Turkey. [BBR474]...
- 1932-12-02 — By this time there were 15 Baha'is under arrest in Adana, Turkey. [BBR474]...
- 1933-00-01 — Baha'is in Gulpaygan, Iran, were refused admission to the public baths. Shaykh Ja'far Hidayat was be...
- 1933-00-02 — The Tavakkul Baha'i School in Qazvin, Iran, was closed. [BW18:388]...
- 1933-02-06 — By this date there were about 50 Baha'is under arrest in Adana, Turkey. [BBR475; PP317]...
- 1933-03-31 — The 50 Baha'is imprisoned in Adana were released. [BBR475]...
- 1934-00-04 — The government of Iran took several measures against the Baha'is throughout the country. [...
- 1934-12-06 — The Tarbiyat Baha'i Schools in Tihran and all other Baha'i schools across the country were closed by...
- 1935-00-02 — The persecution against the Baha'is in Iran continued. [...
- 1936-06-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued. [...
- 1937-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is in Iran continued throughout the country. [...
- 1937-05-01 — Several prominent Baha'is were arrested in Yazd. [BW18:389]
They were imprisoned in Tihran for fo...
- 1937-05-21 — All Baha'i activities and institutions were banned in Germany by a special order of the Reichsführe...
- 1937-07-00 — Nine Baha'is were imprisoned in Sangsar, Khurasan, Iran, for closing their shops on Baha'i holy days...
- 1938-00-00 — Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the country. [...
- 1938-02-05 — Baha'is in the Soviet Union were persecuted by the authorities. [BBR473, BW8p87-90, 179-81, BW14p479...
- 1939-04-21 — The first Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Budapest was elected. There were about 14 believers ...
- 1941-00-01 — Shaykh Kazim was martyred in Bunab, Ádharbayjan. [BW18:389]...
- 1941-01-00 — Nine Baha'is were arrested in Sangsar, Khurasan, Iran, and banished to other towns for closing their...
- 1941-09-16 — In Iran, Rida Shah abdicated and Muhammad-Rida Shah ascended to the throne. His rule was to last unt...
- 1941-10-18 — Four members of a Baha'i family were killed and several other family members were severely beaten in...
- 1942-00-00 — The House of the Bab in Shiraz was attacked and damaged by fire. [BBD108; ...
- 1942-00-00 — The publication in Iran of The Political Confessions or Memoirs of Prince Dolgoruki (or, simply, Dol...
- 1942-00-00 — In the village of Daidanaw eleven Baha'is were slain. Records, books and documents that had been tra...
- 1942-02-13 — Ustad Habibu'llah Mu'ammari was martyred in Nayriz, Iran. [BW18:389]...
- 1944-05-12 — Baha'is were persecuted at Ábadih, Iran. The Baha'i centre was attacked by a mob of four thousand, ...
- 1944-08-08 — Three Baha'is were murdered in Shahrúd, Iran, after three weeks of anti-Baha'i agitation. Many Baha...
- 1944-09-00 — Following the murder of Baha'is at Shahrúd, Iran, and the widespread publicity on the outcome of th...
- 1945-00-00 — Baha'is throughout Iran were dismissed from National Teacher Training Colleges by the National Board...
- 1945-08-14 — The German Baha'is, 80 per cent of whom lived in the American sector of occupied Germany, obtained p...
- 1947-07-04 — 'Abbas Shahidzadih was martyred in Shahi, Mazandaran, Iran and a fellow Baha'i, Habib Allah Hushmand
- 1948-00-00 — The Baha'i Centre in Yazd, Iran, was attacked by a mob incited by Shaykh Khalisizadih. He was a man ...
- 1948-00-05 — The Baha'i centre in Tihran was attacked by a mob incited by Áyatu'llah Kashani. [...
- 1948-00-07 — A Baha'i was killed after an attack on his home at Chalih-Zamin, Iran. [...
- 1948-01-11 — Habibu'llah Húshmand was martyred in Sarvistan, Iran. [BW18:390]...
- 1948-12-09 — The crime of genocide was defined in international law in the Convention on the Prevention and Punis...
- 1949-00-00 — A Baha'i in Kamshatti, near Calcutta, was martyred by a religious fanatic. [BW11:34]...
- 1950-00-00 — In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabi to persecute and harass the Bah...
- 1950-00-00 — Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah were killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani was murdered in T...
- 1950-02-03 — Dr Sulayman Birgis was martyred in Kashan, Iran. [BW18:390]
For his obituary see BW12:684–5.
...
- 1950-09-00 — Four Baha'is in Iran were arrested on trumped-up charges. The trial lasted until 1954, when the accu...
- 1951-00-02 — Muhammad Kayvani was murdered in Najafabad. [...
- 1951-00-04 — Throughout Iran, the government introduced repressive measures against Baha'is. [BW18:390]
Baha'i...
- 1951-00-05 — Baha'is in Áran, Kashan, Iran, were attacked, and one died. [BW18:390]...
- 1951-03-12 — Baha'is in Taft, Iran, were attacked and one was killed. [BW18:390]...
- 1951-06-00 — Baha'is in Faran, Iran, were attacked and several houses burned. [BW18:390]...
- 1952-00-03 — Baha'is and their homes were attacked in Najafabad, Iran, and several houses were set on fire. [BW18...
- 1952-08-26 — The martyrdom of Nuri'd-Din Fath-'Azam near Tehran. [BW12p690-692]...
- 1953-00-00 — Baha'is and their houses were attacked in Bushrúyih and Faran, Iran. [BW18:390]...
- 1953-00-00 — Áqa Rahman Kulayni-Mamaqani was martyred in Durúd, Iran. [BW18:390]...
- 1953-00-00 — Anjoman-e Hojjatieh ("Society of Allah's Proof Over Creation"), also called the Hojjatieh Society wa...
- 1953-03-25 — Enayat Sohaili, an Iranian, arrived in Mozambique from India, the first Baha'i pioneer to the countr...
- 1954-12-08 — Baha'is in Ádharbayjan were dismissed from their employment in the Ministries of Health and Public ...
- 1955-00-06 — Twenty–two African Baha'is were expelled from the Belgian Congo....
- 1955-01-18 — Five Baha'is were arrested and beaten in Hisar, Khurasan, Iran; four of these are dragged around the...
- 1955-02-04 — Baha'i women in Hisar, Khurasan, Iran, were assaulted. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-04-23 — Ramadan began. Shaykh Muhammad-Taqi known as "Falsafi" made an inflammatory speech against the Baha'...
- 1955-05-00 — Persecutions against the Baha'is continued throughout Iran. [...
- 1955-05-02 — The police locked the doors of the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran thus preventing the holding of t...
- 1955-05-07 — The Iranian army occupied the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-05-08 — Baha'is were beaten at Damghan, Khurasan, Iran. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-05-08 — The Baha'i centre at Rasht, Iran, was attacked and taken over. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-05-09 — Baha'i houses were attacked and looted at Shiraz, Iran. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-05-09 — The Baha'i centre at Ahvaz, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-05-16 — The Baha'i centre at Isfahan, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390]...
- 1955-05-17 — The Iranian Minister of the Interior announced in parliament that the Government had issued orders f...
- 1955-05-22 — The dome of the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran was demolished with the personal participation of s...
- 1955-05-24 — The Baha'i centre at Karaj, Iran, was taken over. [...
- 1955-05-27 — The Baha'i centre at Mahfurúzak, Iran, was demolished. [...
- 1955-05-30 — Baha'is were attacked and wounded and their houses attacked at Ábadih, Iran. [...
- 1955-06-01 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Mazandaran, Iran, was taken over. [...
- 1955-07-28 — Seven Baha'is were stabbed and beaten to death by a mob in Hurmuzak, Iran. [...
- 1955-08-00 — Appeals were made by National Spiritual Assemblies around the world through the Baha'i International...
- 1955-09-00 — Baha'is in Iran continued to be dismissed from their employment. Baha'i students were expelled from ...
- 1957-00-00 — Baha'i activity in Czechoslovakia was banned by the authorities, several members of the Prague commu...
- 1958-09-14 — A week before the fifth Intercontinental conference is due to convene in Djakarta, Indonesia, the go...
- 1959-03-01 — A number of Baha'is, members of the local spiritual assembly, were arrested in Ankara, Turkey. [MC30...
- 1960-00-05 — Baha'is in Angola were detained and questioned by officials.
Joaquim Sampaio was carried off in t...
- 1960-08-01 — All Baha'i activity in Egypt was prohibited by Presidential Decree No 263 issued by President Nasser...
- 1961-00-00 — The military government in Indonesia issued instructions to local authorities to ban all Baha'i acti...
- 1961-01-17 — Following the arrest of Baha'is in Turkey in March 1959 and the subsequent court case, the Turkish c...
- 1961-04-14 — The knowledge of the arrest of the 14 believers was received but the Custodians at the World Centre ...
- 1961-07-15 — The Turkish court declared the Baha'i Faith to be a 'Tarighat', a sect forbidden by the law of the l...
- 1961-12-07 — An article appeared in the nationally prominent Moroccan newspaper Al Alam lamenting the decline of ...
- 1962-00-01 — Baha'i homes in Morocco were searched by the police and Baha'i literature seized. [MoC17]...
- 1962-00-03 — The administrative institutions of the Faith were banned in Indonesia by President Sukarno. [BW19:41...
- 1962-01-25 — A Baha'i Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Tetuan, Morocco, Faouzi Zine Al Abidine, was di...
- 1962-04-10 — Four Baha'is were arrested in Nador, Morocco. [BW13:289; BW14:97; BN No 384 March 1963 p1-4]
Eve...
- 1962-08-22 — The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to make representations to t...
- 1962-09-23 — The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to obtain an interview with ...
- 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 ...
- 1962-12-17 — The Custodians asked the Baha'i International Community to issue press releases deploring Morocco's ...
- 1962-12-21 — Telegrams were sent by the Baha'i International Community to Secretary-General U Thant and 35 United...
- 1962-12-23 — The Custodians asked national spiritual assemblies to cable Secretary General of the United Nations ...
- 1962-12-27 — The Custodians asked national and local spiritual assemblies to write to the Moroccan ambassador in ...
- 1963-00-01 — 15 years after the establishment of Israel and during the course of the unrest that swept through Ir...
- 1963-00-02 — In Angola, Antonio Francesco Ebo and seven other Baha'is were arrested and imprisoned in a penal col...
- 1963-01-01 — The Custodians ask all national and local spiritual assemblies to cable the King of Morocco appealin...
- 1963-01-31 — Roger Baldwin, Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man, appeared before the UN su...
- 1963-03-31 — King Hassan II of Morocco was featured on an American television show called "Meet the Press". He st...
- 1963-04-02 — King Hassan II of Morocco made a public statement promising that if the Supreme Court upheld the dec...
- 1963-04-04 — The Custodians issued a statement of information to the national spiritual assemblies of the United ...
- 1963-06-05 — Throughout Iran, advantage is taken of the general anti-government disorder to launch attacks on Bah...
- 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 ...
- 1964-00-01 — Four new believers in Cambodia were arrested and imprisoned as the Baha'i Faith was not formally rec...
- 1966-03-11 — Eduardo Duarte Vieira was arrested in Portuguese Guinea on a charge of subversive political activity...
- 1966-03-31 — While in the custody of the Portuguese authorities Eduardo Duarte Vieira died in prison in Portugues...
- 1966-12-00 — A campaign was launched against the Baha'is of Saysan, Ádharbayjan, by Mulla Mihdi Sultanpúr. [BW1...
- 1967-01-01 — A Baha'i was beaten to death by a mob in Saysan, Ádharbayjan, and other Baha'is were attacked and b...
- 1968-00-00 — Throughout Iran, pressure on Baha'is intensified. [...
- 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...
- 1968-11-04 — Following the participation of Algerian Baha'is in the first Oceanic Conference in Palermo, Sicily, ...
- 1968-11-07 — Sixteen Persian Baha'is in Algeria were expelled from the country and their properties confiscated; ...
- 1969-04-01 — The Baha'i Faith was banned in Algeria by official decree, all Baha'i institutions were disbanded an...
- 1970-05-00 — The 'Iraqi Government issued a decree disbanding all Baha'i institutions and all activities. For nea...
- 1970-11-12 — Baha'is in the Central African Republic were arrested at a meeting to commemorate the anniversary of...
- 1971-00-00 — Following the prohibition of Baha'i activity in Egypt in 1960, Egyptian Baha'is put forward a petiti...
- 1971-02-13 — Following the ban imposed by the government of the Central African Republic on Baha'i activities in ...
- 1971-10-13 — Following the banning of Baha'i activities in Egypt in 1960, Egyptian Baha'is submitted a petition t...
- 1972-00-02 — In Indonesia the Attorney-General confirmed the 1962 ban on Baha'i administrative institutions and a...
- 1972-06-19 — The government of Indonesia re-affirmed the ban on the Baha'i Faith.
Following this a number of B...
- 1972-07-30 — Parviz Sadiqi, Faramarz Vujdani and Parviz Furúghi, Iranian youth pioneers, were murdered near Mind...
- 1973-12-16 — A teenage Muslim girl learned of the Faith from one of her Baha’i school classmates and, together ...
- 1974-00-00 — As a result of an intervention by the Egyptian chargé d'affaires, Baha'i activities in Burundi were...
- 1974-00-00 — Owing to the failure of the Indonesian Baha'is to obtain religious liberty, the Universal House of J...
- 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 — Owing to the continuing ban on Baha'i activities and institutions, the national spiritual assembly a...
- 1975-00-00 — The ban imposed on the Baha'i Faith in Burundi in 1974 was lifted but Baha'i activities continued to...
- 1975-00-00 — Following the creation of the Rastakhiz political party by the Shah of Iran and the refusal of the B...
- 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. [...
- 1975-02-03 — The Arab Boycott Office, at its meeting in Cairo, announced that the Baha'i Faith had been placed on...
- 1975-03-01 — The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt decided that the 1960 decree of President Nasser banning a...
- 1975-04-25 — A revolution in Portugal removed the ban on Baha'i meetings and teaching activities....
- 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...
- 1975-11-01 — In Iran, the house of the maternal uncle of the Bab and the adjacent house in which the Bab was born...
- 1976-00-01 — Following the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam, an anti-religion policy was implemented an...
- 1976-00-03 — The government of Equatorial Guinea outlawed all religions and the national spiritual assembly was d...
- 1976-05-00 — Baha'i activities in Mali were restricted by order of the government and the decree of recognition o...
- 1977-05-14 — The house of a Baha'i in Fadilabad, Iran, was attacked; the Baha'i was killed and his sister severel...
- 1977-09-16 — In Uganda, 27 religious organizations were banned, including the Baha'i Faith, and the Baha'i House ...
- 1977-09-20 — The Baha'i Faith, along with many other religious groups, were banned in Uganda. The National Assem...
- 1977-12-03 — Properties confiscated by the Iraqi government belonging to individual Baha'is were returned; proper...
- 1978-00-00 — Ten Baha'is were killed in Iran, seven by mobs. [BW18:291]
For the response of Baha'i institution...
- 1978-00-00 — In Iran, many local Baha'i centres were seized by armed men of the revolutionary committees, along w...
- 1978-00-00 — The Baha'is of Vietnam were prohibited by the government from meeting and practising their religion....
- 1978-02-00 — The government of the Congo banned the majority of smaller religious groups, including the Baha'i Fa...
- 1978-07-00 — In Niger, an announcement was made on the national radio banning 'the Baha'ist sect and the Nineteen...
- 1978-10-01 — Three hundred Baha'i homes near Shiraz were burned or destroyed and in another 200 homes the Baha'is...
- 1978-10-02 — Mobs destroyed the Haziratu'l-Quds in Mihan-du-´Ab followed by the burning or looting of 80 homes a...
- 1978-11-07 — The murder of Major-General Ali Mohammad Khademi (b. 16 December, 1913 in Jahrom, Fars.) After a bri...
- 1978-12-03 — Baha'i homes in Andarún, Iran, were besieged; one Baha'i was badly beaten. [BW18:275–6]...
- 1978-12-15 — A cabled message was sent to 93 national spiritual assemblies stating that the Baha'is in Iran and t...
- 1979-00-00 — Five Baha'is were killed in Iran, two by execution. [BW18:291]
For the response of Baha'i institu...
- 1979-00-00 — The Siyah-Chal in Tihran and the houses of Quddús and Hujjat were seized and occupied by members of...
- 1979-00-00 — Baha'i cemeteries across Iran were confiscated, including the cemetery in Tihran, which contains the...
- 1979-00-00 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Tihran was confiscated by the revolutionary government of Iran. [BW17:79...
- 1979-00-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly of Afghanistan was disbanded owing to persecution of the Baha'is and...
- 1979-01-12 — Baha'i members of the Sadat-Mahmúdi clan of the Buyr-Ahmad tribe of central Iran were driven from t...
- 1979-02-00 — In Iran, Baha'i representatives met with high-ranking clergy in Shiraz, Qum and Mashhad to combat th...
- 1979-02-02 — A mob of some 5,000 armed with hatchets, spades and pickaxes converged on Hisar, Iran, intent on har...
- 1979-02-03 — Revolutionary Guards raided the offices of Nawnahalan, a Baha'i investment company, and the Umana' C...
- 1979-02-15 — The National Haziratu'l-Quds of Iran was seized by the Revolutionary Guards. [BW18:250]
All the r...
- 1979-03-01 — Yúsif Subhani, a well-known Baha'i businessman, was imprisoned in Tihran. [BW18:278]...
- 1979-03-30 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Iran, was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government. [BW18:289]...
- 1979-04-02 — The ban against the Baha'i Faith in Uganda was lifted and the House of Worship in Kampala was re-ope...
- 1979-04-03 — Revolutionary Guards in Iran occupied the House of the Bab in Shiraz and neighbouring Baha'i propert...
- 1979-05-24 — Shaykh Muhammad Muvahhid, a well-known Baha'i, was kidnapped in Tihran. [BW18:254, 294]...
- 1979-06-21 — In Iran, the offices of Nawnahalan and the Umana' Corporation were taken over by Revolutionary Guard...
- 1979-09-00 — Bahar Vujdani was executed in Mahabad, Iran. [BW18:255]...
- 1979-09-01 — Revolutionary committees in Shahsavar, 'Ábadan and Tabriz, Iran, ordered the arrest of Baha'is. [BW...
- 1979-09-08 — The House of the Bab in Shiraz was attacked and substantially demolished by a crowd accompanied by 2...
- 1979-09-16 — Enoch Olinga—Hand of the Cause of God and Knight of Baha'u'llah—his wife and three of his childr...
- 1979-10-01 — In Iran, Baha'is in the ministries of education, health and social administration were dismissed fro...
- 1979-11-00 — Baha'i meetings were prohibited in Shasavar, Iran. [BW18:255]...
- 1979-11-11 — Dr 'Alimurad Davúdi, a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, was kidnapped in Tihran a...
- 1979-11-11 — Starting just months after the revolution, seven members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the B...
- 1979-12-00 — Work on the demolition of the House of the Bab in Shiraz was resumed and the building almost razed t...
- 1979-12-02 — 'Azamatu'llah Fahandizh was executed in Tihran. [BW18:255]
- 1979-12-03 — The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from which all civil rights stem and which did not...
- 1980-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92]
Twenty–four Bah...
- 1980-02-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is in Iran entered a new, more dangerous phase. [BW18:255]
Prominent ...
- 1980-04-00 — Eight Baha'is were arrested in Tabriz; five were released after signing an agreement not to take par...
- 1980-07-14 — Two of the Baha'is arrested in Tabriz in April were executed. [BW18:256]...
- 1980-09-00 — The European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the United Nations ...
- 1981-00-03 — The site of the House of the Bab, destroyed by a mob in 1979, was made into a road and public square...
- 1981-00-05 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92]
Forty–six Baha'...
- 1981-06-14 — Seven members of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Hamadan were executed by firing squa...
- 1981-12-05 — The Baha'i cemetery in Tehran was seized "by order of the Revolutionary Court". Five caretakers and ...
- 1981-12-10 — The Universal House of Justice announced that the House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Núr, Iran, had bee...
- 1981-12-27 — Eight of the nine members of the replacement National Spiritual Assembly of Iran were executed. They...
- 1982-00-01 — One of the members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Vietnam sent to a 're-education' camp was r...
- 1982-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92]
Thirty–two Baha...
- 1982-05-25 — The Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Foreign Affairs Committee of...
- 1982-10-23 — Authorities arrested 45 Baha'is in Shiraz on the order of the prosecutor. On October 30th another 40...
- 1983-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92; BW19:177–226]
T...
- 1983-00-06 — During its first decade in power, the Islamic regime openly persecuted and killed Baha'is. These per...
- 1983-03-02 — Five local and two pioneer Baha'is were arrested, interrogated and held briefly in prison in Maurita...
- 1983-04-01 — The Government of Morocco prohibited all Baha'i meetings. [BW19:49]...
- 1983-06-18 — In Shiraz, ten Baha'i women ranging in age from 17 to 57, were hanged. All of the women had been tor...
- 1983-07-22 — The number of Local Spiritual Assemblies in Africa rose to some 7,200 and localities
where Baha'is ...
- 1983-08-23 — Seyyed Hussein Musavi Tabrizi, the Attorney General of Iran, declared all Baha'i administrative acti...
- 1983-08-29 — In Iran the Baha'i Faith was banned in Iran and membership of Baha'i institutions made a criminal of...
- 1983-09-03 — In response to the Iranian authorities banning all Baha'i administrative and community activities an...
- 1983-12-00 — Baha'is were arrested in Mohammadieh and Casablanca, Morocco. [BW19:49]
The Baha'is in Mohammadie...
- 1984-00-00 — Four Baha'is, one of whom had already spent five years in prison, were imprisoned in Indonesia, conv...
- 1984-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226]
Thirty Bah...
- 1984-06-00 — A Baha'i in Tetuan, Morocco, was arrested and sentenced to three years imprisonment for violating th...
- 1984-10-00 — In Tunisia, the activities of the Faith were curtailed and Baha'is were interrogated. [BW19:50]...
- 1985-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226]
Seven Baha...
- 1985-02-23 — Forty–one Baha'is from various parts of Egypt were arrested, charged with offences against laws in...
- 1985-05-07 — The court hearings open on the cases of the Baha'is arrested in Egypt in February on charges of disr...
- 1985-07-01 — Three Baha'i youths in Mentawai were imprisoned for having married according to Baha'i law. [BW19:42...
- 1985-08-28 — Mr Rahmatu'llah Vujdani, a 57 year old teacher, was executed by firing squad in Bandar 'Abbas. He ...
- 1985-10-05 — The court cases against the Baha'is arrested in Egypt for contravening the 1960 ban on Baha'i activi...
- 1985-10-22 — The 14th Muzakarah (Conference) of the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious...
- 1985-12-13 — For the first time, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the human rights sit...
- 1986-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226]
One Baha'i...
- 1986-00-00 — Iran's hugely unsuccessful attempt to convince the international community that Baha'is were indeed ...
- 1986-01-21 — The Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar University in Cairo published in a number of newspapers a ...
- 1987-00-01 — Faced with unrelenting religious persecution involving a wide range of human rights violations, the ...
- 1987-09-23 — Three members of the Yaran-e Iran, Mr. Jamaluddin Khanjani, Mr. Hasan Mahboobi and Mr. Changeez Fan...
- 1988-12-08 — The plenary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution concerning hu...
- 1989-03-09 — The Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution expressing grave concern at human rights violati...
- 1989-04-04 — The Universal House of Justice announced a vast majority of prisoners that had been held by authorit...
- 1990-05-00 — The US Senate unanimously adopted a concurrent resolution condemning Iran's continued repression of ...
- 1991-02-25 — In Iran, a secret government memorandum (known as the Golpaygani Memorandum) was drawn up by Iran's ...
- 1992-03-18 — The martyrdom of Mr. Bahman Samandari in the Evin prison in Tehran. Mr. Samandari was executed with ...
- 1993-01-00 — Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the United Nations' special representative in charge of monitoring the human ...
- 1993-02-22 — At the 49th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations in Geneva released a re...
- 1993-06-00 — The bodies of Baha'is buried in the Baha'i section of a Tihran cemetery were exhumed and taken by lo...
- 1993-07-00 — A section of the Baha'i cemetery in Tihran was bulldozed to make way for the construction of an Isla...
- 1993-12-08 — In Iran, death sentences were pronounced against two Baha'is on the grounds of their membership in t...
- 1995-09-00 — The arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Zabihullah Mahrami in Yazd because of his adherence to the Baha'i...
- 1997-07-04 — Masha'llah Enayati, a 63-year-old man, died in custody while in prison in Isfahan after being severe...
- 1997-07-06 — Shahram Reza'i, a conscript in the army, was shot in the head by his superior officer at a military ...
- 1998-02-01 — The Baha'i Open University resumed activities after the seizure of much of their assets four months ...
- 1998-07-21 — Mr. Ruhu'llah Rawhani, a 52-year-old medical supplies salesman was hanged in Mashhad solely for reli...
- 1998-09-29 — Starting this date until October 2nd, in Iran, the government raided some 500 private homes and the ...
- 1999-04-19 — The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced Sina Hakiman (10 yrs), Farzad Khajeh Sharifabad...
- 1999-09-01 — The murder of Abdullah Mogharrabi in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It was determined that he was killed for ...
- 2000-02-17 — Iran's Supreme Court rejected death sentences imposed upon Sirus Zabihi-Moghadam, Hadayet Kashefi-Ma...
- 2001-01-14 — Sixteen Baha'is were arrested in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag. The charges brought against th...
- 2001-05-06 — In a letter to an individual in response to a query about the wisest course that a believer can adop...
- 2001-10-23 — The murder of Rashid Gulov in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It was determined that he was killed for his rel...
- 2001-12-03 — The murder of Mosadegh Afshin Shokoufeh in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It was determined that he was kille...
- 2002-00-00 — The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa (edict) that banned Baha'is from burying their dea...
- 2002-03-05 — The announcement by the Baha'i International Community of the murder of three Baha'is in Dushanbe, T...
- 2003-00-00 — A fatwa was issued against the Baha'i Faith in Egypt by Al-Azhar, the prominent religious institutio...
- 2003-06-01 — A fatwa was issued by the Mufti of Sabah State Government that declared that the Baha'i teachings we...
- 2004-00-01 — The 2004 Circular 49/2004 issued by the Ministry of the Interior specifically instructed officials t...
- 2004-02-00 — In Babul, Iran, the destruction of the gravesite of Quddús, a house-like structure that marked the ...
- 2004-02-07 — The release of Mr. Bihnam Mithaqi and Mr. Kayvan Khalajabadi who had been imprisoned on April 29, 19...
- 2004-04-00 — The completion of the destruction of the gravesite of Mulla Muhammad-'Ali Barfurushi, known as Quddu...
- 2004-06-20 — By order of Ayatollah Kani, director of the Marvi School and the Endowments Office, destruction of...
- 2005-00-02 — The official campaign to malign the name of the Faith in Iran through the mass media, newspaper arti...
- 2005-10-29 — Letter from the Iranian military headquarters to various Revolutionary Guard and police forces and s...
- 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...
- 2006-05-02 — Letter, from the Trades, Production, and Technical Services Society of Kermanshah to the Iranian Uni...
- 2006-05-15 — In Egypt the government appealed the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Administrative Court and th...
- 2006-05-19 — Iranian security officials arrested 54 Baha'is in the city of Shiraz who were involved in a communit...
- 2006-08-19 — Iran's Ministry of Interior ordered officials throughout the country to step up the surveillance of ...
- 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 ...
- 2006-12-22 — The Education Department Management Security Office in Shiraz circulated a form to be completed by a...
- 2007-00-00 — This increase in the activities of the Yaran-e Iran mandated the addition of more members; as a resu...
- 2007-01-00 — In Romania, a law was passed to supersede the 1948 Communist-era religion laws. It imposed restrict...
- 2007-03-21 — After about nineteen years of oppression, the Baha'i community was officially registered with the go...
- 2007-04-09 — In a memorandum from the office of Intelligence and National Security to the commanders of police fo...
- 2007-09-09 — A Baha'i cemetery near Najafabad, Iran was destroyed using heavy equipment. More than 100 graves wer...
- 2007-10-02 — An event was organized by the Defenders of Human Rights Centre in Iran to publicize the plight of al...
- 2007-11-12 — Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights released a report that stated tha...
- 2007-11-21 — The Universal House of Justice responded to a communications from the Baha'is attending event of th...
- 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...
- 2008-03-05 — Mahvash Sabet – a schoolteacher and mother of two and a member of the national-level administrativ...
- 2008-03-20 — The re-formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of Vietnam took place after a lapse of some 33 y...
- 2008-05-14 — The six men and a women, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr. Afif Naeimi, Mr. Saeid Rezaie, Mr. Behrouz Tav...
- 2008-05-14 — Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri issued a fatwa stating that, since (Baha'is) were the ...
- 2008-05-15 — The arrest of the Baha'i leadership took place in the context of a severely and rapidly escalating s...
- 2008-06-03 — Mrs. Mahvash Sabet and Mrs. Fariba Kamalabadi were permitted to make short phone calls to their fami...
- 2008-06-20 — Four Baha'is were arrested in Sana'a on the accusation of proselytizing. The three Baha'is of Irania...
- 2008-07-27 — The results of the nationwide university entrance examination were made available on the National Or...
- 2008-10-31 — The Universal House of Justice sent a message of encouragement to the besieged Baha'i Community of I...
- 2008-11-00 — Ameed Saadat sat Iran's 2008 national university entrance examination. He passed was accepted to stu...
- 2009-02-03 — The publication of "We are Ashamed," an open letter from a group of academics, writers, artists, jou...
- 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.
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- 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 the
- 2010-05-10 — New information was obtained regarding the conditions in which the seven Baha'i prisoners were being...
- 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...
- 2010-12-07 — In an open letter to Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, the Head of the Judiciary, the Baha'i Intern...
- 2011-01-25 — January 25th marked the beginning of the revolution in Egypt where millions of protesters from all s...
- 2011-03-30 — Six months after Iran's Appeal Court reduced their sentences from 20 to 10 years, the seven Baha'i l...
- 2011-05-20 — Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet were returned to Evin Prison in Tehran. They had spent a brief t...
- 2011-09-24 — The arrest of Abdolfattah Soltani, a senior member of the legal team (4 lawyers) representing a numb...
- 2012-02-24 — The inaugural screening of Iranian Taboo by Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Reza Allamehzadeh in Los Angeles...
- 2012-05-11 — The Universal House of Justice sent a message to the Baha'is of Iran near the four-year anniversary ...
- 2012-06-00 — After the January 25th revolution against Mubarak and a period of rule by the Supreme Council of the...
- 2012-10-29 — The Baha'i International Community published a special report on The Baha'is of Semnan: A Case Study...
- 2013-03-00 — The publication of the report entitled Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Bah...
- 2013-05-14 — The Baha'i International Community launched the Five Years Too Many campaign to protest the 20-year ...
- 2013-07-15 — Iranian filmmaker and blogger as well as a former Islamist hardliner who has become an outspoken cri...
- 2013-08-24 — Mr. Ataollah Rezvani, a well-known Baha'i in the city of Bandar Abbas disappeared and the next day t...
- 2013-10-28 — The release of the video Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Baha'i Community ...
- 2013-12-03 — Mr. Hamed Kamal Muhammad bin Haydara (sometimes referred to in the media as "Hamed Merza Kamali Sero...
- 2014-04-00 — In Shiraz, the Revolutionary Guard began excavation of some 200 square meters of the Baha'i cemetery...
- 2014-05-08 — Despite a worldwide outcry, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards continued destroying an historic Baha'i...
- 2014-05-28 — In the presidential election in Egypt, former Egyptian defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was ele...
- 2014-08-08 — The official ban on the Baha'i Faith in Indonesia was lifted. [The Jakarta Post August 8...
- 2014-09-00 — The exclusion of Shadan Shirazi, an exemplary student who placed exceptionally well in the college e...
- 2014-10-03 — Hamed bin Haydara had been held at an undisclosed location since his arrest by National Security For...
- 2014-11-00 — Fariba Kamalabadi, after having her fourth request to join her daughter Taraneh for her wedding deni...
- 2015-01-08 — The first trial hearing of Hamed bin Haydara was held. Legal and human rights NGOs witnessed tamperi...
- 2015-02-27 — The premiere of the film To Light a Candle by Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, Maziar Maha...
- 2015-04-22 — Pressures on Jamaleddin Khanjani's family had increased since his arrest in 2008. Their country h...
- 2015-05-14 — A global campaign called "Seven Days in Remembrance of Seven Years in Prison for the Seven Baha'i Le...
- 2015-07-24 — The Qom Seminary* announced the planning of classes called "Understanding Baha'ism" and "Understandi...
- 2015-10-30 — The cemetery of the 20,000 strong Baha'i community of Rajasthan, located in Jaipur, was violently a...
- 2015-12-21 — Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a senior Muslim cleric in Iran, had courageously called on hi...
- 2016-04-24 — Mr. Hamed Bin Haydara, who had been imprisoned without trial since December 2013, was again brought ...
- 2016-04-29 — In observance of the eighth anniversary of the arrest and incarceration of seven Iranian Baha'i lead...
- 2016-05-12 — In commemoration of the incarceration of the Yaran in Iran in 2008 the International Baha'i Communit...
- 2016-05-13 — Fariba Kamalabadi, while on a five-day furlough from Evin Prison, met with former Tehran MP Faezeh H...
- 2016-08-10 — Armed officers, masked in balaclavas from Yemen's National Security Bureau (NSB) intelligence agency...
- 2016-09-06 — In a letter the BIC called on Iranian President Rouhani to end systematic ...
- 2016-09-26 — The murder of Farhang Amiri in Yazd. [BWNS1133; Arch...
- 2016-10-26 — The report from the offices of the Baha'i International Community entitled The Baha'i Question Revis...
- 2016-11-24 — From her cell in Evin prison, In a open letter to her six-month old granddaughter, Bajar, Fariba Kam...
- 2016-11-27 — In Yemen, Nadim al-Sakkaf and his brother Nader, who were detained from August 10th, were unexpected...
- 2017-04-19 — Houthi-Saleh political security officers arrested Walid Ayyash, Mahmood Humaid, and Badi'u'llah Sana...
- 2017-04-25 — The formation of the human rights organization, "The Yemeni Initiative for Defending Baha'i Rights"....
- 2017-04-28 — Amnesty International sent a Joint Public Statement to the Huthi-Saleh authorities in Yemen calling ...
- 2017-05-05 — The film Changing the World, One Wall at a Time was premiered in Harlem on the 5th of May and in Los...
- 2017-05-12 — The Baha'i International Community launched a global campaign calling for the immediate release of t...
- 2017-05-15 — Hundreds of Yemenis gathered in front of the Criminal Prosecution building in the capital city of Sa...
- 2017-08-01 — The release of the film The Cost of Discrimination by Arash Azizi and Maziar Bahari which compared t...
- 2017-09-19 — Mahvash Sabet, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha'is in Iran known ...
- 2017-09-29 — Arrests of Baha'is in Yemen drew international censure which led to a United Nations resolution, tit...
- 2017-10-18 — The Iranian Baha'i community was targeted during the bicentenary period. Between 18 and 21 October, ...
- 2017-10-23 — Yemeni security forces raided a Baha'i gathering in Sana'a opening fire on the small group of people...
- 2017-10-31 — Fariba Kamalabadi, a member of the former leadership group of the Baha'is called the "Yaran", conclu...
- 2017-11-04 — Three young Iranians who complained to state officials after being denied university entrance for be...
- 2017-11-17 — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly condemned Iran by a vote of 83 to 30 with 68 abst...
- 2017-11-30 — Baha'is celebrated the bicentennial of the birth of Baha'u'llah in a ceremony in Baghdad attended by...
- 2017-12-05 — The release of Behrooz Tavakkoli, 66, from prison after serving a 10-year term. He was the third me...
- 2018-02-00 — Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), an NGO working to promote the right to freedom of religion or ...
- 2018-02-16 — The release of Saeid Rezaie, one of the seven members of the Yaran, the former leadership group of t...
- 2018-02-18 — In an open letter, twenty-five prominent international lawyers and human right activists appe...
- 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...
- 2018-03-23 — Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, the Secretary-General of Yemen's Shia political party Ansar ...
- 2018-04-01 — The launch of a fierce campaign of hatred against members of the Baha'i Faith, as well as other agai...
- 2018-09-29 — In the second court hearing presided over by judge Abdu Ismail Hassan Rajeh, three additional Baha'i...
- 2018-12-20 — The last imprisoned member of the former leadership body of the Baha'i community in Iran was release...
- 2019-01-08 — Imprisoned Baha'i Hamed bin Haydara, 55, who had been sentenced to death, appeared in court in Sana...
- 2021-12-06 — Thirteen irrigated farmland plots belonging to Baha'is in the village of Kata in Iran's southwest ha...
- 2023-03-30 — A deceased Baha'i was buried on 30 March at Khavaran cemetery near Tehran by an agent of the Minist
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