Source: iranhumanrights.org The Baha’i faith community is one of the most severely persecuted religious minorities in Iran. Iran’s government is unabashed in its propagating of false narratives about the community and has for decades blocked Baha’is from&hellip
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—4 October 2021—Recent reports indicate that the Iranian government has affirmed and further entrenched its policy to bar members of the Baha’i Faith from university. Young Baha’is, who for decades have been denied&hellip
Source: www.en-hrana.org Since the beginning of this year, HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, has documented 16 cases of Baha’i citizens being barred from higher education due to their faith. As in previous years,&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti It’s an annual occasion, a clear reminder of the cruel, targeted discrimination embedded in Iran’s education system. Each year, as Iranian students receive the results of their higher education entrance exams, Baha’i students&hellip
Source: www.en-hrana.org Tehran resident Negar Sobhani Azabadi has become the 13th Baha’i citizen this year to be barred from higher education on the grounds of her faith. HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, has&hellip
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&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ Sina Shakib, a fourth semester student of statistics and applications at the Khansar School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Isfahan, has been expelled from the&hellip
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
