Source: www.buzzfeed.com Canadian universities are now recognizing degrees from an underground school for the religious minority. Anisa Rawhani At each ring of his phone, Shakib Nasrullah and his family jumped. The caller ID was blocked, but&hellip
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A Peaceful, Persistent Response to Injustice
Source: news.bahai.org 21 July 2017 BIC GENEVA — Thirty years ago, the Baha’i community of Iran embarked on a remarkable endeavor. Denied access to formal education by the country’s authorities after their numerous appeals, they set up&hellip
Murals as Symbols of Solidarity, Resilience
Source: news.bahai.org NEW YORK — Marthalicia Matarrita is a Latina artist from New York City. Although her life is a world away from Iran, Ms. Matarrita’s artwork connected her with Education is Not a Crime, a&hellip
Sorrows and Dreams of Keyvan Rahimian, a Baha’i Teacher
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On the 22 and 23 of May 2013, Iranian intelligence agents, in a coordinated and widespread move across the country, stormed the homes of dozens of Baha’is&hellip
Berkeley Architect Fights Religious Oppression With Education …
Source: www.nbcbayarea.com By Garvin Thomas It is late on a Wednesday evening and in Niknaz Aftahi’s second-floor Richmond apartment an underground class is just about to start. “Has anyone new joined?” asked Aftahi, looking at the&hellip
Azizollah Samandari Was Released from Rajai Shahr Prison After Five Years of Imprisonment
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Azizollah Samandari, a Baha’i prisoner in Rajai Shahr prison was released on Friday,April 14th, 2017 after spending 5 years in prison. As Reported by BahaiNews,&hellip
Why Yale and Columbia Are Accepting Students from a University That Holds Classes in a Basement in Tehran
Source: qz.com WRITTEN BY Neha Thirani Bagri @NehaNotes Marjan Davoudi was 19 years old when she was told that she was not human. Davoudi, now 56, had been studying math at the National University in Tehran when&hellip
Iranian University Conceals Evidence of Expelling Baha’i Students for Religious Beliefs
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Fifteen Baha’i Students Expelled in December and January At least 15 Baha’i students were expelled from Iranian universities between December 2016 and January 2017, with university officials trying to eliminate any trace of the&hellip
Journalist Challenges Qom Ayatollah About Persecution of Baha’is
By Masih Alinejad In this interview that Masih Alinejad has conducted with Ayatollah Alidoost, she directed him a question about the possibility of the expulsion of Muslim-Americans from the US after the presidency of Trump.&hellip
Iran: Overcoming Persecution to Graduate
Source: Study International Staff The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects&hellip
Studying at the Bahai Secret University
Source: www.bbc.com By Lipika PelhamNew York The largest non-Muslim minority in Iran, the Bahais, are persecuted in many ways – one being that they are forbidden from attending university. Some study in secret, but for those&hellip
Azita Rafizadeh’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: The Concurrence of My Husband’s and My Imprisonment Will Harm My Child
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Azita Rafizadeh, an imprisoned Baha’i in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, wrote an open letter to Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani in which she raised the concurrence&hellip
The Crush Continues: Rouhani and the Ban on Baha’i Education
Source: www.iranwire.com AIDA GHAJAR President Hassan Rouhani and his government have failed to ease pressure on Iran’s Baha’i community. In fact, in some cases, the persecution against Iran’s largest religious minority has intensified. Since Rouhani and&hellip
Baha’i Educator Freed at the End of His 4-Year Sentence
Source: www.bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report by the No to the Harassment of Baha’i Citizens campaign, on Monday November 14, Shahin Negari was released from prison after serving his full four-year&hellip
A Letter from Azita Rafizadeh, from the Women’s Ward of Evin Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report by BahaiNews, Azita Rafizadeh, a Baha’i imprisoned at Evin Prison, has written a letter from the women’s ward of that prison, which is published&hellip
Nasim Bagheri Charges: Teaching Baha’i Youth
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On Sunday morning, 29 April 2014, intelligence agents arrested Nasim Bagheri, one of the professors at Iran’s “Baha’i Institute of Higher Education” (BIHE), at her&hellip
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