Baha’i adherent Navid Tashakor arrested in Isfahan after court summons

Hengaw — Sunday, December 14, 2025

Navid Tashakor, a Baha’i adherent from Isfahan, has been arrested after being summoned to the city’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office and transferred to Dastgerd Prison.

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Tashakor, a resident of Baharestan in Isfahan, was arrested on Saturday, December 13, 2025, after appearing at the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office of Isfahan and was subsequently transferred to Isfahan Central Prison, known as Dastgerd Prison.

Sources familiar with the case said the charges brought against Tashakor by judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran include “propaganda against the state through educational activity and/or deviant, contradictory, or disruptive promotional activities contrary to Islamic law.”

Tashakor had previously been arrested at his home on Sunday, June 22, 2025, during the Iran–Israel war, and was released 17 days later on temporary bail of one billion tomans pending the completion of judicial proceedings.

He was also detained on June 15, 2025, along with several colleagues at his workplace on accusations related to “Israeli micro aerial vehicles,” and was released after one day.