Overview Faith Under Siege is a NUFDI booklet documenting the 2025 crackdown on Iran’s religious minorities through individual case profiles that show state violence in real lives. It explains how the...
Overview
Faith Under Siege is a NUFDI booklet documenting the 2025 crackdown on Iran’s religious minorities through individual case profiles that show state violence in real lives. It explains how the Islamic Republic often answers external pressure with internal repression, and how the Ministry of Intelligence has portrayed communities such as Baha’is and Christian converts as “security threats” tied to foreign conspiracies. The report counters that narrative by naming targeted individuals, recording where and when they were targeted, and which rights were violated, through arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, denial of counsel, excessive bail, medical neglect, and property seizure.
The booklet includes 53 profiles of individuals persecuted for their faith. As the world prepares to celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas, religious minorities in Iran face some of the harshest abuses. By restoring individuality to those the state tries to erase, the report serves as both documentation and a call to recognize this repression as inseparable from the fight for the freedom of all Iranians from the Islamic Republic.
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