Wikipedia's article on the persecution of Baha'is, community-edited. Reliable for the documented sequence following Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution: the August 1980 forced disappearance and presumed execution of the National Spiritual Assembly, the August 1983 ban on all formal Baha'i administrative activity, and Amnesty International's own tally of at least 201 Baha'is executed, predominantly through the 1980s; not the right source for a precise current-day casualty count, since the article documents an ongoing pattern of arrests rather than a closed historical episode.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Baha%27is
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1979 to 1983 institutional dismantling and Amnesty International's own cited execution figure, sourced within the article to a named human rights organisation rather than to an unattributed claim. NotesUsed for the systematic persecution of Baha'is in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds, 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religious Events, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Spread Events, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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