Wave of Baha’i arrests continues in Shiraz; Mahsa Sotoudeh detained

Hengaw – Saturday, March 30, 2026

Mahsa Sotoudeh, a 25-year-old Baha’i resident of Shiraz, was arrested by Iranian government forces and taken to an undisclosed location. She is the third Baha’i adherent to be detained in the city in recent days.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, intelligence forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided Sotoudeh’s home in Shiraz and arrested her at around 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2026.

Informed sources told Hengaw that agents conducted a thorough search of the house, confiscated electronic devices belonging to all family members, and then transferred her to an undisclosed location.

Sotoudeh is a close relative of Pezhman Zarei, another Baha’i adherent who was arrested in Shiraz in mid-March 2026 and, nearly a month later, remains in an uncertain situation at an undisclosed location.

No precise information is available regarding the reasons for her arrest, the charges against her, or her place of detention. Ongoing efforts by her family to obtain information about her fate have so far been unsuccessful.