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…
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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…
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…
“I Was Embarrassed by My Freedom”
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Excerpts from Bahman Ahmadi Amouee’s report on Prison Conditions Fereshteh Ghazi Thursday, January 29, 2015 From the moment he was arrested together with his wife at midnight on June 20…
One Week After Forced Return from Hospital to Prison, Dr. Moghaddam Back in Hospital following a Heart Attack
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 29 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: On the morning of Wednesday, 28 January 2015, Dr. Foad Moghaddam, a physician and one of the administrators of the Baha’i online university,…
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…
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…
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