Source: en.iranwire.com Mahrokh Gholamhosseinpour Everything Azita Rafizadeh said ended with this question: “What will happen to Bashir if they take Peyman away to serve his sentence?” Her trembling voice showed the deep anxiety of a mother…
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My Unwanted Sabbatical, Why I Went to Prison for Teaching Physics
Source: www.technologyreview.com On April 30, 2015, I was standing behind the very tall and heavy door of Rajaee-Shahr prison in the suburbs of Tehran, anxiously waiting for a moment I’d been imagining for four years. At…
Imprisonment of Both Parents of a Child for Their Promotion of Higher Education
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—1 December 2015—As part of an outrageous effort to block Baha’i youth from higher education, Iranian authorities have imprisoned the mother and are threatening to imprison the father of a six-year-old boy, depriving him…
Education Becomes Her
Source: www.examiner.com By Randolph Dobbs The year is 2010 and an Iranian architectural student is hunched over a drafting table, adding last minute details to complete an assignment. Recalling the timber frame construction used in traditional…
BIHE Instructor Released From Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Amanollah Mostaghim one of the imprisoned staff members of the Bahai Open University (BIHE) in Iran, was released from Raja’i Shahr prison today. He was sentenced to five years in…
BIHE Instructor Transferred to Evin Prison to Serve Four Year Sentence
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by No to Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’i Compatriots: Azita Rafizadeh, who had previously been sentenced to four years imprisonment for teaching at the online Baha’i…
Imprisoned BIHE Instructor Has Been Denied the Right to a Furlough
Source: hra-news.org October 6, 2015 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – Nasim Bagheri, one of the instructors at the Baha’i online university (BIHE), who has been imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin…
A Heartfelt Note from Masoud Bastani after the Release of Kamran Rahimian
Source: www.facebook.com/bahainews1 “BahaiNews” released a heartfelt letter from Masoud Bastani, a journalist, human rights activist and former political prisoner who was the cellmate of Kamran Rahimian. The text is below: Welcome friend; a friend in my…
BIHE Educator Back to Prison After Medical Furlough
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Amanollah Mostaghim one of the imprisoned staff members of the Bahai Open University (BIHE) in Iran, was returned to Raja’i Shahr prison on the morning of August 18. Mr. Mostaqim,…
BIHE Educator Freed at the End of His 4-Year Sentence
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Sen’s daily Kamran Rahimian, one of the educators of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Eduction (BIHE) in Iran, has been released from Raja’i Shahr prison, near Tehran, at the end of a…
Foad Moghadam’s Critical Condition
Source: bahaicamp.com Translation by sen’s daily The condition of Dr. Foad Moghadam, a 63-year-old physician and one of the administrators of the Baha’i online university (BIHE), who is serving a five year prison sentence, is reported…
4 Bahai’s Imprisoned for Educating Youth Released from Iran Prison
Source: www.worldreligionnews.com 29 MAY 2015 By ALISON LESLEY After 4 Years Of Imprisonment For Educating Baha’is, 4 Faculty Members Of The Baha’i Institute For Higher Education (BIHE) Were Finally Released. In May 2011, a coordinated raid…
BIHE Consultant Released at the End of His Sentence
Source: hra-news.org Translation by sen’s daily Riaz Sobhani, a Bahai who worked for the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) as a building industry consultant and manager, was released from Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj today at…
“Practical Dreamers”
Source: www.noghtenazar.org By Saeid Rezaie Translation by Iran Press Watch Today, after four years, Mahmoud Badavam, Farhad Sedghi and Ramin Zibaie, faculty members of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), have been released from Rajai-Shahr…
BIHE Professor Freed at the End of Her 4-Year Sentence
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Sen’s daily Nooshin Khadem, one of those arrested in May, 2011, when the Iranian authorities raided the Bahai Institute for High Education (BIHE), has been released from Evin prison at the end…
Imprisoned BIHE Professor Has Received Time off Due to Illness
Source: No to Campaign of Harassment and Imprisonment Against Baha’i’s Translation by Iran Press Watch Amanollah Mostaghim, a professor at the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE – the Baha’i Open University) who has been…
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