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The European Parliament has appealed to the government of Iran to release the seven Bahá’í leaders who are being held without charge in Tehran’s Evin prison.
The appeal came as part of three resolutions on democracy and human rights adopted at the end of the European Parliament’s Strasbourg plenary session.
Observing that believers of the Bahá’í [...]

The Bahá’í community has expressed its concern after at least six Bahá’ís were arrested in Iran yesterday. One of those detained is a woman who worked at human rights organizations connected with Nobel prize winner Shirin Ebadi, pictured right.
According to the Bahá’í World News Service, the six were arrested after government security agents raided the [...]

London has hosted the United Kingdom’s largest Bahá’í gathering in 45 years with a northern European regional conference that brought together 3,200 people from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Greenland.
A World Congress held in the Royal Albert Hall in 1963 was the only bigger Bahá’í gathering in the city – [...]