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,…
Denial of Education
As the New University Year Begins, Baha’is Again Face Bans
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…
Thirteen Baha’is Have Been Barred From Higher Education So Far This Year
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…
‘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…
Sina Shakib Expelled From University and Barred From Continuing His Studies Because of His Belief in the Baha’i Faith
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…
International Day of Education; An Overview of the Right to Education in Iran in 2020
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…
Shima Fattahi Prevented from Continuing Education Because of Belief in the Baha’i Faith
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…
Baha’i Mahsa Forouhari Barred from Continuing Education
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…
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…
Baha’i University Candidates Summoned for Interrogation
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…
This Year Too, Baha’i Citizens Are Not Allowed to Enter University; Systematic Discrimination in the Homeland
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.…
Baha’is and Women in Iran Victims of Discrimination in Seeking Higher Education
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…
Announcing Results of National Entrance Exam and Depriving Baha’is of University Education
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…
Baha’is Barred from Entering University for the Fortieth Year in a Row
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…
Baha’i Youth Expelled from Secondary School for Gifted Students Solely Due to His Faith
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…
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