Source: Baha’i World News Service 22 March 2015 GENEVA — A high UN official has praised the film “To Light a Candle”, a documentary film on the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, as an important&hellip
Education Is Not a Crime
Maziar Bahari’s Interview with CBC on the Persecution of the Baha’is of Iran
Source: www.cbc.ca Sunday March 15, 2015 The very place where the Baha’i faith was born has become the country where its people are the most persecuted. Founded in 19th century Persia, the Baha’i community promoted equality&hellip
When Homework Is a Matter of Life and Death
Source: time.com By Roxana Daneshjou/ Zocalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare March 3, 2015 My parents fled Iran because they were forbidden from getting an education there. I’ve spent over one-third of my life on a university campus The&hellip
Authorities Target Baha’is in New Arrests
Source: en.iranwire.com Friday 27, 2015 By Natasha Schmidt, Kian Sabeti Intelligence Ministry agents raided a number of Baha’i homes in Tehran, Isfahan and Kerman and arrested 16 Baha’i citizens on February 16 and 17.&hellip
From Iran to Canada, Education Is Not a Crime
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com By Maziar Bahari Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Feb. 25 2015 Across the country, Canadian schoolchildren are celebrating Freedom to Read week, a public affirmation of freedom of expression through the process&hellip
“Education Is Not a Crime” Gains Momentum
Source: Baha’i World News Service 8 February 2015 LOS ANGELES — Education is Not a Crime, a worldwide campaign drawing attention to the constructive response of the Baha’i community to the Iranian government’s systematic denial&hellip
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu Added His Globe-Spanning Voice to the Education Is Not a Crime Campaign
Source: www.tutu.org.za/education-is-not-a-crime-campaign January 30, 2015 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African social rights activist, anti-apartheid hero, and human rights campaigner, who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, truly needs no introduction. And today His Grace&hellip
Nobel Laureates Speak out for Baha’is Ahead of LA Event
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of five Nobel Prize laureates to endorse the Education is Not A Crime campaign Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid hero who received the Nobel Peace&hellip
History of the Exclusion of Iranian Baha’is from Higher Education after the Islamic Revolution
Source: fa.iranpresswatch.org By Vahid Sadeghi Translation by Iran Press Watch After the Iranian Islamic Revolution, along with various oppressive acts against the Iranian Baha’i community, denial of higher education and coercion of Baha’i academics started when&hellip
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