Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA – This report prepared by Human Rights Activists (HRA) honors the International Day of Education by bringing attention to the state of education in Iran, specially during the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent challenges&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA: Shima Fattahi Mirshekarloo, a Baha’i citizen, received a message on the website of the Urmia Azad University on Sunday, January 17th, 2021 informing her that she had been&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA: Mahsa Forouhari, a Baha’i citizen living in Karaj has once again been prevented from continuing her education. After registering in the system of the assessment organization, which admits&hellip
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&hellip
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&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Young Baha’i would-be students who passed this year’s national university entrance exams in Iran have been hauled in by education officials for questioning. On Wednesday, November 11, a number of Baha’i candidates were summoned&hellip
Source: www.zeitoons.com Shiva Nazarahari Translation by Iran Press Watch This year’s controversial nationwide university entrance exams, in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak and after several delays, was carried out in the middle of the summer.&hellip
Source: www.independentpersian.com By: Amir Soltanzadeh, Persian independent journalist Translation by Iran Press Watch Discriminatory admission is still present in the process of entering universities in Iran. Even though the capacity of universities to admit women has&hellip
Source: bbc.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On the occasion of the announcement of the results of the national examination for university entrance, a number of Baha’i students have stated that, as has been the&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti “We deprived of higher education two generations of Baha’i compatriots who made their way through primary school and high school by suffering thousands of humiliations and insults. Now it is the turn&hellip
Source: iranhumanrights.org Father: “Don’t expect us to lie when you pose a question” Fifteen-year-old Adib Vai has been expelled from a school for gifted students in Karaj, west of Tehran, solely because he is a member&hellip
Source: irannewswire.org A 15-year-old elite Baha’i student in Karaj near Tehran, was banned from continuing his education due to his religious beliefs. According to the Human Rights News Agency, Adib Vali was not allowed to register for&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS AGENCY – this morning, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Vahed Kholousi Derakhshan, a human rights activist and a Baha’i citizen, was informed of his early release after contacting&hellip
Source: Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Executive Summary The closure of Iranian universities in the spring of 1980, and the subsequent expulsion of hundreds of professors and students who were deemed to be at odds with&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press watch Milad Pourissa “I had a Baha’i student. On the day he was to defend his thesis, what should have happened, happened #deviant_misleading_cult” This brief and vague message by&hellip
Source: fa.rfi.fr By Azadeh Vala Translation by Iran Press Watch Mohammad Ali Pourmokhtar, member of the Parliamentary Islamic Council on Legal and Judicial Affairs Commission, said on Tuesday, September 3, that the commission is considering a&hellip
