{"id":4974,"date":"2019-11-09T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2019-12-04T00:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T00:28:48","slug":"monthly-report-of-violation-against-followers-of-religions-in-iran-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"Monthly report of violation against followers of religions in Iran-October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tables Preparation: Hamid Reza Taghipour Dehghan Tabrizi<\/p>\n<p>Data Compiler: Mohammad Hosein Malani Barzi, Mohamad Aftabi, Hadi Dartomi<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Amin Jafari<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Alireza Jahan Bin<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Article 18 (The right to freedom of opinion)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has the right of freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Article 19 (The right to freedom of expression)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has the right of freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.<\/p>\n<p>This report consists of statistical information about violation against the rights of followers of other religions in Iran until the end of Mordad 1398 (22 August 2019). This report has been presented statistically-analytically.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious that because of strict actions of Islamic Republic of Iran with the Human Rights activists especially in observation and reporting the Human Rights violations and also deprivation of free circulation of information and constantly refusal of Iran`s government to recognize an independent\u00a0domain\u00a0in\u00a0civil\u00a0activities, at the present time, reporting is very difficult and dangerous for many reporters and activists (whom are in prison or custody) and are facing a lot of limits.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The pressure on followers of other religions still continues:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The current authorities in Iran and its leaders are believing that some religious groups are the enemies of the country, because their religious beliefs may challenge the loyalty to the regime and\u00a0under\u00a0the pretext\u00a0of preserving\u00a0national\u00a0and\u00a0political\u00a0security, they suppress\u00a0the\u00a0religious\u00a0activities of other religions followers.<\/p>\n<p>Detentions\u00a0and\u00a0targeted\u00a0violence\u00a0against the followers\u00a0of other\u00a0religions\u00a0in\u00a0Iran\u00a0still continues by\u00a0the security\u00a0and\u00a0judicial\u00a0organizations\u00a0of the\u00a0Islamic\u00a0Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Iran, citizens\u00a0on\u00a0the basis\u00a0of religion\u00a0beliefs are divided\u00a0into\u00a0two\u00a0official\u00a0and\u00a0non-official\u00a0categories.<\/p>\n<p>The Baha`i religion is \u00a0one of the non-official religions in Iran which is under more pressures rather than other religions. The Baha`is are deprived of performing ritual rites, propagating their religion and teaching and educating in higher educational levels. At the present time, hundreds of Baha\u2019i citizens are suffering from long prison terms in different jails of the country, including Semnan, Mashhad, Tehran, Karaj and other cities of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Official religions like Christianity have faced great limitations. The government only recognizes the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assyria\">Assyrian<\/a> Christians, Armenian and Chaldean worships, preaching the gospel to Iranian is a crime, the Persian language people are forbidden to enter the churches, and\u00a0churches\u00a0are\u00a0tasked\u00a0to submit\u00a0their\u00a0members names\u00a0to\u00a0the Ministry of Intelligence,\u00a0along\u00a0with copies\u00a0of\u00a0their\u00a0national identification card.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the Article 13 and 26 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran Christianity in a recognized religion, and the right to pray or build a community has been given to the Christians but confrontation with the Protestant Christians who are believing in the gospel of their religion still continues, and domestic churches are facing widespread suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Religious discrimination is strictly enforcing against the Sunni Muslims. They\u00a0mostly are living in the boarder sides of the country, and are deprived of the right to build mosques and their religious rituals like Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha prayer in\u00a0central\u00a0areas\u00a0as well\u00a0as\u00a0Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Even\u00a0in\u00a0some cases\u00a0the destruction\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Sunni Mosques\u00a0has\u00a0been\u00a0reported and These people are dealing with execution, detention\u00a0and\u00a0persecution. They\u00a0are\u00a0prohibited\u00a0from\u00a0hiring\u00a0in\u00a0governmental\u00a0organizations. A\u00a0prominent\u00a0example\u00a0is the Bijan Zolfaghar Nasab\u00a0who was\u00a0appointed to the Minister\u00a0of Sports\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Hassan\u00a0Rouhani government, but because he is Sunni they did not give him the vote to be selected for this position.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u>Sunni:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunnis are seeking the security\u00a0and\u00a0brotherhood,\u00a0they\u00a0expect\u00a0to have the religious\u00a0liberty and\u00a0this\u00a0is\u00a0the demand\u00a0of\u00a0every\u00a0member\u00a0of\u00a0the Sunni\u00a0community. \u00a0It\u00a0is expected\u00a0that\u00a0the Sunni\u00a0community\u00a0in\u00a0the great\u00a0cities\u00a0of the country, like\u00a0Isfahan\u00a0and\u00a0other\u00a0cities,\u00a0can\u00a0pray freely\u00a0and\u00a0educate\u00a0their\u00a0children. This\u00a0expectation is\u00a0perfectly legal.<\/p>\n<p>The right to build the mosques in any city or have the freedom for Friday and Eid prayers or have the complete freedom, are completely legal\u00a0and\u00a0they do not\u00a0have a\u00a0lot\u00a0of\u00a0demands. The Sunnis are\u00a0believing\u00a0that\u00a0their right should\u00a0be consider and\u00a0that no one\u00a0would\u00a0be\u00a0deprived\u00a0of\u00a0their rights\u00a0for\u00a0religion\u00a0beliefs,\u00a0because respecting\u00a0the rights\u00a0of\u00a0the people\u00a0causes\u00a0unity\u00a0and\u00a0closeness.<\/p>\n<p>Because of religious\u00a0propaganda the Sunni\u00a0prisoners\u00a0are\u00a0convicted\u00a0with charges\u00a0of\u00a0action\u00a0against\u00a0national\u00a0security, they have the sentence of combat against GOD, they are spending their conviction time in jail and in an inappropriate space and constantly\u00a0being\u00a0insulted\u00a0by\u00a0the prison\u00a0officers\u00a0and guards because of\u00a0their\u00a0opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Article\u00a020\u00a0of\u00a0the Constitution\u00a0of\u00a0the Islamic\u00a0Republic\u00a0of\u00a0Iran\u00a0stresses\u00a0that based on the rules\u00a0of Islam, all Iranian citizens are equal. However, along\u00a0with\u00a0other\u00a0religions\u00a0in\u00a0Iran,\u00a0the\u00a0constitution\u00a0has\u00a0failed\u00a0to ensure\u00a0equality\u00a0for\u00a0more\u00a0than\u00a0three decades\u00a0to guarantee\u00a0the\u00a0rights of\u00a0citizens. Sunni\u00a0followers\u00a0in\u00a0Iran\u00a0are\u00a0in\u00a0the same\u00a0condition,\u00a0even\u00a0though\u00a0they are\u00a0Muslims. They\u00a0are deprived\u00a0not only, of\u00a0the\u00a0management\u00a0responsibilities\u00a0of the country\u00a0and\u00a0military but also,\u00a0equal opportunities\u00a0and\u00a0facilities. They\u00a0are facing\u00a0strict\u00a0obstacles\u00a0and\u00a0constraints\u00a0to\u00a0publicize\u00a0their\u00a0beliefs\u00a0and\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.abadis.ir\/entofa\/p\/perform\/\">perform<\/a>\u00a0their\u00a0religious\u00a0rites\u00a0from\u00a0the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In this Month:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Based on human rights report: on 20<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Mohammad Osman Damani son of Molavi Mohammad Ebrahim Damani a Sunni citizen in Iranshahr, who was previously arrested by intelligence service, was freed on a 100 million bail. This Sunni citizen was arrested on 18<sup>th<\/sup> of October.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana news: Jamshid Pirouti, a Sunni citizen, is serving his term in prison. He was previously sentenced to 5 years of discretionary imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights report: on 29<sup>th<\/sup> of September, Ebrahim Balouch, a Sunni activist in Chabahar, was arrested on the way home and taken to an unknown place.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights report: on 25<sup>th<\/sup> of September, Molavi Yousef Sarbazi a Sunni activist in Kohe Van was interrogated for 5 hours in central intelligence in Rask city.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana news: on 26<sup>th<\/sup> of September, Molavi Abdolmalek Aramesh was interrogated for 3 hours by central intelligence in Rask city.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana news: on 29<sup>th<\/sup> of July, a court of law was held for Tohid Ghoreishi, a Sunni activist in Rajai prison. Due to the verdict he is supposed to serve 16 years in Jail.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The statistical report of violations against the Sunnis:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"820\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">Row<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Subject<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">Number of Cases<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Summon and Interrogation<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Detention and Unawareness<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Freedom on Bail<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Marginalization and Rumor Spreading<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Imprisonment Order<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Deprivation of Citizenship Rights<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"619\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u>Baha`i:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, a country that many Baha`is are living in, The\u00a0Baha&#8217;i is\u00a0still\u00a0considered as an &#8220;apostate\u00a0sect&#8221; in\u00a0Iran.\u00a0It is well known that Baha`is are seeking the peace, they do not want political power and do not pose the security threat. However, the Iranian religious regime pursues them. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, methodically Baha`is were deprived of access to higher education levels as well as employment rights, and if they persevere in claim for their lost rights, they will face the false accusations, imprisonment and intimidation, and always have been exposed to arbitrary arrests and imprisonment. They have never been able to follow their religious instructions in public. They are being abused almost all the way of their life.<\/p>\n<p>It is not possible to transfer the knowledge and human experience, except through specific trainings. And so the right to education is one of the fundamental human rights which has been mentioned in Articles 26 and 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Articles 13, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, that everyone has the right to educate\u00a0 without discrimination based on distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. The Iranian government is obliged to provide all essential facilities for enjoyment of all citizens from this natural right and also should remove any kind of obstacles based on geographical, political, economic and cultural conditions in order to provide these fundamental rights.<\/p>\n<p>Prohibition of work and business\u00a0is\u00a0another\u00a0strain\u00a0and\u00a0harassment\u00a0that\u00a0the Baha`is are\u00a0facing\u00a0in society. In most of the provinces, the Public Places Surveillance Authority which is affiliated with the Police Force, without any permission is sealing their businesses places.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In this month:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 21<sup>st<\/sup> of October, Mitra Forsatipour, a Baha`i citizen in Gilavand was arrested by intelligence forces and transferred to Evin prison.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights: on 21<sup>st<\/sup> of October, Kiana Shoai, Farzan Masoumi and Soroush Abadi, Baha`i citizens in Shiraz were arrested in their houses by intelligence forces and Their houses were inspected and some of their properties like cell-phones, laptop and etc. were confiscated. they transferred to an unknown place.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 21<sup>st<\/sup> of October, Ataolah Zafar, a Baha`i citizen in Evin prison was bailed out Due to his medical condition.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 14<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Bahare Zeini and Sepideh Rouhani, two Baha`i citizen in Esfahan prison were freed after passing one third of their prison term which was 4 years in total.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights on 16<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Saham Armin, a Baha`i citizen in Esfahan was freed after 1 year of imprisonment. He was previously sentenced to 6 years of discretionary imprisonment in prison.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 14<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Foujan Rashidi, a Baha`i citizen in Esfahan prison who was sentenced to 4 years of discretionary imprisonment after serving his one third of imprisonment, was conditionally freed from prison by appeal court.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 9<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Neda Sabeti, Noshin Afshar and Forough Farzaneh, three Baha`i citizens in Abadan were sentenced to 1 year of discretionary imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana news: on 9<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Azita Rafizade, a Baha`i citizen, was freed after serving her prison term in Evin prison. Her husband, Peyman Koushkbaghi is in prison since 2017. They were sentenced to 4 and 5 years in prison respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 7<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Sima Behrouzi Mehdi Abadi, a Baha`i citizen in Yazd, was convicted to 3 months imprisonment by the revolutionary court of this city.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 27<sup>th<\/sup> of September, four Baha`i citizen\u2019s houses of Karaj and Tehran were inspected and two of them were arrested.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 27<sup>th<\/sup> of September, Abbas Taef, a Baha`i citizen in Tehran was arrested in his house and some of his personal properties were confiscated.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 27<sup>th<\/sup> of September, the house of Ehsan Ayadi, a Baha`i citizen in Tehran, was inspected and his personal properties like cell-phones, laptop, passport, religious books, identification certificates were confiscated.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 5<sup>th<\/sup> of October, a court of eight Baha`i citizens in Bandar Abass was held. Their names are: Mahnaz jannesar, Maral Rasti, Mehran Afshar, Adib Haghpajouh, Nasim Ghanavatian, Arash Raskhi, Farhad Amri and Omid Afaghi.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human\u2019s rights in Iran: on 29<sup>th<\/sup> of September, Elham Hor and her two children, three Baha`i citizens, were deprived of continuing their education due to Iran\u2019s new discriminatory constitution about the followers of other religions.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: Yalda firouzian, a Baha`i citizen in Semnan, is still in solitary cell after passing five months of detention. She recently has been deprived of making any communication with her family.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 26<sup>th<\/sup> of September, Farhang Sahba, a Baha`i citizen in Esfahan prison, was transferred to a solitary cell.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Harana: Sama Khanjani, a Baha`i citizen in Semnan, was deprived of continuing her education on the contrary of passing the university entrance exam.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The statistical report of violations against the Baha`is:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"820\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">Row<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Subject<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">Number of Cases<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Detention and Unawareness<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Summon and Interrogation<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Conditional Freedom<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Freedom by Sentence Completion<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Imprisonment Order<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Trial<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Persecution and Intimidation of Prisoners and their Families<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Deprivation of Visit or Phone Call<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Inquisition<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Moved to Solitary Cell<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">11<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Aggressive Behavior<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">12<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Freedom on Bail<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">13<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Deprivation of Education<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">14<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Marginalization and Rumor Spreading<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">15<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">House Inspection<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">16<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Violation against Citizenship Rights<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">17<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;\" width=\"532\">Property Confiscation<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"619\">Total<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><u>Christians:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic is trying to destroy the Christianity, and this is a bitter fact about the violations against the Christians rights. Christians, who have been charged and sentenced to persecution by the Islamic Republic because of their heresy and religious conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Violation against the Christian rights is increasing in the Islamic Countries and many of them are facing the racial harassment on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a numerous number of Christians are jailed for religious conversion and religious activities. Currently, according to the human rights organizations in Iran, a large number of well-known Christians are in prison for offences such as preaching the <a href=\"https:\/\/iraniantranslate.com\/dictionary\/english-persian-translation\/gospel\/\">gospel<\/a>, or teaching and distributing the Bible or other citizens who are convicted of spying and many rights of Christian neophytes have been violated, they have been punished, persecuted, sentenced to the imprisonment or penalties like whip only because of some of their religious rituals like drinking the wine in the Eucharist (the Lord`s Supper) or even in some cases they were threatened to the death.<\/p>\n<p>Security and judicial Organizations pressure on churches still continues and in continuation of the series of restrictions imposed by the security authorities, the Official Evangelical Churches, the Central Numinous Community Church in Tehran, the Protestant Immanuel Church, Peter &#8216;s Evangelical Church in Tehran and etc. have been forced to cooperate with the security Organizations and accepting their demands on revealing the list of their members along with other information about them, including their national identification number, also preventing the participation of the Persian language Christian neophytes in their religious rituals, preventing them to hold the ceremonies in Persian.<\/p>\n<p>Even the churches are refusing to accept the Persian language Christians, and they must hold their ceremonies in non-Persian language.<\/p>\n<p>Prison sentences for Iranian Christians continue to be issued. In the Constitution of Islamic Republic, the religious freedom of Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians has been recognized but so far, the government&#8217;s actions against religious propaganda and the performance of their religious rites has shown that the Principles of the Constitution on the freedom of religion and prevention of ideas and beliefs Inquisition, were only intended to cover the violations against the rights of other religions in Iran. Based on the Islamic Republic Constitution, the twelve Imam Shia is the official religion of Iran and the religious and security organizations of the Iranian government are considering that the propaganda for the principles of these religions is a threat to the dominant ideology of the government and it is one of the main reasons why the regime has suppressed the Christian followers and missionaries by closing their churches and preventing them of religious propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In this month:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Based on Harana: on 13<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Matias Ali Hagh Nejad, Shahrouz Eslamdoust, Behnam Akhlaghi, Babak Hoseinzade, Mehdi Khatibi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Hosein Kadivar, Kamal Namanian and Mohammad Vafadar, nine non-trinity Christian neophyte in Rasht were each sentenced to 5 years imprisonment due to the verdict of \u201ctreat to the national security\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 8<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Milad Godarzi, Yaghoub Nateghi, Shahabodin Shahi and Alireza Nourmohamadi, four non-trinity Christian neophyte in Karaj Prison were freed after serving prison term. Amin Khaki, the prime suspect, is still in prison due to the verdict of \u201ctreat to the national security\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Human rights in Iran: on 14<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Yousef Nadarkhani, a non-trinity Christian neophyte in Evin prison who is passing his 10 years of imprisonment, has ended his hunger strike after 21 days due to deprivation of registration of his children at school because of their religious beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: after passing 53 days of detention of Mohamad Salehi, a Christian neophyte, his family haven\u2019t had any information about him.<\/li>\n<li>Based on Mohabat news: on 16<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Rokhsare Ghanbari,a Christian neophyte, has introduced herself to court to serve her 1-year imprisonment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The statistical report of violations against the Christians:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"820\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">Row<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Subject<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">Number of Cases<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Start of Conviction<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Hunger Strike<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Unawareness of Detainees<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Detainees in an Unknown Situation<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Detention and Unawareness<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Lawyer or Fair Trial Inaccessibility<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Deprivation of the Right to Visit or Phone Call<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Freedom<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">End of Hunger Strike<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Imprisonment Order<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">11<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Marginalization and Rumor Spreading<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"619\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><u>Gonabadi Dervishes:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gonabadi and Nematolahi Dervishes are 11 million people, almost 9 times more than Iranian army. In January and February 2018 in Tehran, they fought against security forces. In a tension between police and Dervishes, 3 police officers and 2 of Basij forces were killed and 300 Dervishes were arrested. The fight started because of the limitation that the government put on visiting their leader, Nourali Tabande. These limitations were the new start of harassment against Dervishes across the country. These harassments continued so that the security forces wanted to surround the Dervishes leader\u2019s house (Doctor Tanabande, a 90 year-old man) with the charge of acting against national security. In result of that, these fighting aroused more. Amirali Mohamadi Labaf, a Gonabadi Dervish member on 18<sup>th<\/sup> of February was invited to the police station and was interrogated and beat. Other Dervishes after getting informed about Amirali Mohamadi Labaf had gone to the police station and made him free but that led to arresting Nematollah Riahi, another Gonabadi Dervish. Mr. Riahi on the same day was transferred to the security forces. These atmosphere continued until 18<sup>th<\/sup> of February that Dervishes gathered in front of Police station number 106 in order to free Mr. Riahi. But this gathering turn to a fight when Special Forces came to the scene and 5 Dervishes were killed and 300 Dervishes were arrested.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In this month:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Based on human rights in Iran: on 5<sup>th<\/sup> of October, Faeze Abdipour a Gonabadi Dervish, was summoned to the court of law by an SMS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The statistical report of violations against the Gonabadi Dervishes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"820\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">Row<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subject<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">Number of Cases<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Summon and Interrogation<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"88\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"532\">Marginalization and Rumor Spreading<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"619\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"201\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tables Preparation: Hamid Reza Taghipour Dehghan Tabrizi Data Compiler: Mohammad Hosein Malani Barzi, Mohamad Aftabi, Hadi Dartomi Translation: Amin Jafari Edit: Alireza Jahan Bin<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/?p=4974\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report-of-violations-against-the-human-rights-in-iran","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}