Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remi Rowhani (photo credit: SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT) Qatar has previously been accused of deporting members of the Baha'i ...

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for social media posts that allegedly “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion,” ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday condemned the five-year prison sentence handed down to Remi Rowhani, a Baha’i religious dignitary, following a a months-long trial by Qatari authorities. Rowhani was ...

Students at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) published a series of case studies examining interreligious diversity, ...

The verdict came just two weeks after a group of U.N. human rights experts expressed “serious concern” about the leader's arrest and detention, which they depicted as “part of a broader and disturbing ...

Qatar sentenced the leader of the country’s Baha’i community on Wednesday to five years imprisonment after he allegedly made a social media post which was said to “cast doubt on the foundations of the ...