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: 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: 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: 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&hellip
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Officials at the Ministry of Health have repeatedly expressed concern about Iran’s serious shortage of doctors and nurses over the past few years. This shortage has become&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: 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&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
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&hellip
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&hellip
Source: www.icmc.net Geneva, 1 October 2019 – Imagine having to pack a few of your most precious belongings in haste before fleeing overnight across international borders. Holakou Rahmanian, a former Iranian refugee now resettled in the United&hellip
Source: www.forbes.com Ewelina U. Ochab In early September 2019, Iranian news reported that the Iranian Minister for Education had ruled that if students mention that they belong to an officially unrecognized religion, like the Baha’i faith, this can&hellip
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency- This year, a number of Baha’i participants in the National Entrance Exam (NEE) have been denied access to higher education for their religious beliefs. The reason&hellip
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—12 September 2019—As millions of children and youth begin the new school year in Iran, Bahá’ís across the country prepare to diligently pursue their studies to better serve their compatriots. The Bahá’í International&hellip
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&hellip
Source: persian.iranhumanrights.org Translation by Iran Press Watch An informed source has told the Campaign that Negin Tadrisi, a Baha’i resident of Isfahan, who was arrested in 2017 during the bicentenary celebration of the birth of the&hellip
