Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Mahmoud Sadeghi: No One Should be Deprived of Education for Having a Different Religion Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Tehran, has recognized the right to…
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti On the morning of Wednesday, November 15, Hasan Momtaz, a teacher for the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), was arrested at his mother’s home in Shiraz and taken to Adelabad Prison.…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Harana News Agency – Three Baha’i youth, Ruhyyeh Safajoo (21) and Tara Houshmand (21), and Sarmad Shadabi (22) have each been sentenced to five-years prison sentences. According to the…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Two members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran have been offered university enrollment in exchange for renouncing their religion, according to information received by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). According…
Source: iranwire By Kian Sabeti 115 Iranian Baha’is have banned from universities. This year the officials told Baha’is who had passed the entrance exams they might be able to study, but they said they need…
Source: en.radiofarda.com By Mahtab Vahidi Rad More than 70 Baha’i students have reportedly been denied entry to universities in Iran despite successfully passing the national admissions tests. According to some sources, the number of Baha’is who…
Source: Human Rights activist, Hamid Reza Dehghan Tabrizi Translation by Iran Press Watch Laeya Shaerzadeh, a Baha’i citizen and undergraduate student studying at the University of Hafez in Shiraz, has been expelled due to her…
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from HRANA, the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran, on Friday, August 25, 2017, Keyvan Rahimian, professor of the Baha’i Institution of Higher Education…
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Navid Khanjani, a Baha’i citizen and human rights activist, has celebrated the anniversary of six consecutive years in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. According to the Human Rights in…
Source: www.buzzfeed.com Canadian universities are now recognizing degrees from an underground school for the religious minority. Anisa Rawhani At each ring of his phone, Shakib Nasrullah and his family jumped. The caller ID was blocked, but…
Source: news.bahai.org 21 July 2017 BIC GENEVA — Thirty years ago, the Baha’i community of Iran embarked on a remarkable endeavor. Denied access to formal education by the country’s authorities after their numerous appeals, they set up…
Source: www.iranwire.com By AIDA GHAJAR A schoolmaster in Iran has hit the headlines after making discriminatory comments on Twitter claiming that Baha’is, the country’s largest minority religion, do not have the right to education. The comments follow…
Source: www.dw.com Iran is refusing to implement UNESCO’s education agenda. The country’s religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, views it as a Western conspiracy. In doing so he’s discriminating against women and minorities like the Baha’i. A profound…
Source: adian.bashariyat.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Shakib and Shima Mohammadalipour were expelled from Lorestan University School of Technology and Engineering, and Kashan University School of Architecture and Liberal Arts, due to their…
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Farzad Safaei was one semester away from a bachelor’s degree in industrial metallurgy at the Islamic Azad University in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, when he was expelled on May 20, 2017 by the security office for…
Source: ir.voanews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch June, 2nd 2017 More than three thousand Iranian students from various universities are protesting educational restrictions imposed on Gonabadi Dervishes, and are demanding education equality for all religious and…
