Christians, particularly evangelicals and converts, continued to experience disproportionate levels of arrests and high levels of harassment and surveillance, according to reports from exiled Christians. According to representatives of the Baha’i community, the government continued to prohibit the Baha’is from officially assembling or maintaining administrative institutions, actively closed such institutions, harassed Baha’is, and disregarded their property rights. According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center database of prisoners, at least 380 religious practitioners remained imprisoned at the end of the year for their membership in, or activities on behalf of, a minority religious group, including approximately 250 Sunnis, 82 Baha’is, 26 Christian converts, 16 non-Sunni Sufis, Yarsanis, three Sunni converts, and two Zoroastrians. A number of other prisoners, including several Sunni preachers, remained in custody awaiting a government decision to implement their death sentences.
In Iran, the government executed at least 20 individuals on charges of moharebeh, translatable as “enmity towards god,” among them a number of Sunni Kurds. International Religious Freedom Report for 2015 International Condemnation of Violation of Human Rights in Iranīureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Weekly report on Human Rights Violation in Iran
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