Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—16 February 2024—On the morning of 12 February, in the Iranian city of Qaemshahr, a group of young Baha’is had gathered in a private home owned by a Baha’i woman, Maryam Zabihi Zamani,…
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Baha’i Educator Keyvan Rahimian Receives Nine-Year Prison Sentence
Source: www.en-hrana.org Keyvan Rahimian, a Baha’i citizen and lecturer at an online university affiliated with the Baha’i community, has been sentenced to nine years in prison, accompanied by a fine and a six-year deprivation of…
Ebrahim Vahedian: A Physics Professor and Award-Winning Translator Expelled for His Baha’i Faith
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Ebrahim Vahedian Burjeni was born in Isfahan in 1935 to a Baha’i family and completed his primary education in the same city. After finishing the eighth grade, and receiving his middle…
“You Will Not Be Admitted to University … You are Baha’is!”
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On May 22, 2011, in a coordinated and simultaneous operation, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence raided the homes of 39 Baha’i citizens connected with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education…
The 2022 Award of a Spanish Association Went to the Iranian Baha’i Institute for Higher Education
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Reports indicate that the 2022 prize of the Spanish “Liberpress” association went to the Iranian Baha’i Institute for Higher Education. The Liberpress Association announced that the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) deserves…
‘Constructive Resilience’: How the Baha’is Endure in Iran
Source: news.yahoo.com Stuart WILLIAMS Holakou Rahmanian, born into a Bahai family in Tehran in 1989, grew up like any Iranian child, shone at school and passed his exams with flying colours. But then he applied to…
How “Reformists” Tried to Placate the UN Over Discrimination Against Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have been banned from entering higher education for forty years, since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. This mass state-sanctioned infringement of human rights can be separated into…
Baha’is Barred From Higher Education In Iran
Source: en.radiofarda.com “Deficient filing” is a familiar term to Baha’i youth in Iran who want to enter university and carry on their education like any other citizen enjoying one of their most fundamental rights. Iranian Baha’is…
Constructive Resilience: How an Oppressed Minority Manages to Thrive in Iran
Source: www.post-gazette.com AFRA AMID AND SANDRA LYNN HUTCHISON Barred from teaching or studying at state universities and subject to imprisonment and, in some cases, even execution for their beliefs, the Bahá’ís of Iran, a religious minority…
Barred From Iran, Baha’i Scientist Takes a Quantum Leap With Google
Source: iranwire.com Arash Azizi Pedram Roshan has not lived in Iran for about 20 years. Memories of his country of birth are “fading,” every day, he says. But he vividly remembers the best definition of physics…
Continued Suppression of Religious Freedom in Iran; No Release for Negin Ghedamian, Imprisoned Baha’i
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Negin Ghedamian, an imprisoned Baha’i citizen in Iran who was arrested in mid-December 2017 and is serving a five-year sentence in Evin Prison, is still jailed despite a recent…
BIHE Instructor Payman Koushk Baghi Released From Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Payman Koushk Baghi, a Baha’i citizen who had been sent on leave from Evin Prison on 18 March, 2020 was informed of an order issued…
Baha’i Hassan Sarvestani Released from Evin Prison After Completing His Sentence
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, on Tuesday December 3, 2019, Hassan Momtaz Sarvastani, a Baha’i citizen from Shiraz, was released from Evin…
The Google Quantum Scientist Was Banned from Attending University in Iran
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti An Iranian Baha’i is part of the team behind Google’s newly-announced “discovery of the millennium” — the world’s first quantum computer. On 22 October, Google researchers announced that a computation that…
Azita Rafizadeh, a Baha’i Citizen, Has Been Released from Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRA News Agency (HRANA) – Azita Rafizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, was released from Evin Prison today after completing her sentence. She was arrested by security forces in November 2015…
The Underground Classrooms of Future Architects
Source: iranwire.com A film about the Baha’is of Iran and their commitment to education and resilience despite hostility from the leaders of the Islamic Republic has attracted thousands of public votes in the 2019 American Institute…