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…
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“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…
Imprisoned BIHE Educator with Heart Disease Denied Medical Treatment
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: Foad Moghaddam*, a physician and one of the managers of the online university of the Baha’is, despite heart problems and other health issues,…
Arrest of Several Baha’i Residents of Abadeh in Connection to the Baha’i Virtual University in Iran
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: Friday, January 2, 2015 HRANA News Agency – Agents of the Ministry of Information in the city of Abadeh arrested Farshid Rastegar, as well as other Baha’i students…
Five-year sentence of Hassan Momtaz confirmed
Source: hra-news.org Hassan Momtaz reports, on December 8, that he has heard via his lawyer that the review court has confirmed his five-year sentence for educational activities with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). He…
Movie Review: ‘To Light a Candle’ – A Bahai Story of Hope
Source: blogcritics.org/movie-review-to-light-a-candle-a-bahai-story-of-hope/ by William Lambers The plight of the Bahai minority in Iran has been featured in my previous interviews with Nava Ghalili and Niknaz Aftahi. Now there is a new documentary film which tells of the resilience and hope of…
The world governing body of the Baha’i Faith praises Bahai’s of Iran for their “unrelenting pursuit of knowledge”, describing BIHE as “one of the most outstanding examples of constructive resilience in the modern age”
Source: www.payamha-iran.org Translation by Baha’i World Center The world governing body of the Baha’i Faith1 has written an open letter 2 to the oppressed Baha’is of Iran which is so important and so eloquent that Iran…
New Documentary ‘to Light a Candle’ Examines Baha’i Struggles in Iran
Source: www.worldreligionnews.com 13 OCT 2014, POSTED BY KYLE GLATZ NEW FILM TO LIGHT A CANDLE EXAMINES THE PERSECUTION OF BAHA’IS IN IRAN. For millions of people around the world, the term Baha’i will have little or no…
Imprisoned BIHE Professor Writes to His Grandchildren about BIHE and Importance of Education
Source: taraneh.org Translation by Iran Press Watch A letter from Farhad Sedghi in Rajai Shahr prison, addressed to his three grandchildren, who just started school for the first time in September 2014 To my grandchildren, With…
A Letter from the Heart by an Iranian Baha’i Prisoner to the Iranian People
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch A point of view which has not yet changed since at least 30 years ago. HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency) – Ramin Zibaei* is a Baha’i Institute for…
Mohammad Seifzadeh and Heshmatollah Tabarzadi’s Letter about a Group of Our Fellow Iranians Being Denied an Education
Source: hra-news.org/fa/letters/hs Wednesday, 24 September 2014 HARANA News – Mohammad Seifzadeh and Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, two of the ideological prisoners held at Rajai Shahr (sometimes called Gohardosht) Prison in Karaj, have reacted to the continued violation of…
The Baha’i University Applicants: The Deprivation Continues
by Maryam Ghadirzadeh Source: www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2014/09/140925_mgh_bahai_students Translation by Iran Press Watch 25 September 2014 Baha’is who have taken the nationwide entrance examination in Iran say that their names have been deleted from the list of accepted students.…
The Case For Cultural Enrichment For Iran
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Marjan Keypour Greenblatt Co-Founder, Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) Dr. Kavian Milani Co-Founder, Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) While we as Americans believe that education is the vehicle for…
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