[iranhumanrights.org, 13 Oct. 2011] In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Naim Sobhani, son of Riaz Sobhani, an Iranian Baha’i imprisoned at Evin Prison for the past four months on the…
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Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”
[iranhumnrights.org, 2 Nov. 2012] Following the sentencing of seven Baha’is associated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the Appeals…
The Plight of Iran's Baha'is
[pbs.org 1 June 2012] by KAMIAR ALAEI * * Arash and Kamiar Alaei, physicians specializing in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, were found guilty in 2009 of “cooperating with an enemy government” and sentenced…
The Epic, Secret Struggle to Educate Iran’s Bahais
[chronicle.com, 13 May 2012] By Sohrab Ahmari The Salvadoran jurist Reynaldo Galindo Pohl died this year at age 93. A former education minister and president of El Salvador’s National Constitutional Assembly, Pohl spent much of…
Baha'is in Brampton host meeting
[bramptonguardian.com, 24 May 2012]A Brampton organization wants Canada to use diplomatic pressure on the Iranian government and help stop the systemic and relentless prosecution of Baha’is, a religious minority group.The Baha’is of Brampton will hold…
Letter from Bashir Ehsani, a Baha'i student at BIHE.
Dear IPW editor, I would like to draw your attention to a letter that my friend Bashir Ehsani wrote, upon my request to be read in our Education Under Fire Campaign in the Bay Area,…
17 NGOs Call on Iran to Uphold the Right to Education and Academic Freedom
[democracyinaction.org] Washington, D.C. – Today 17 non-governmental organizations published a joint statement calling upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to uphold the right to education and immediately address the alarming state of academic freedom in…
Calls for Iran to uphold right to education intensify
[BWNS, 31 May 2012] GENEVA — The Baha’i International Community has joined with 16 other non-governmental organizations to call upon the government of Iran to urgently address the state of higher education in the country. A…
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof to Visit Iran
[Education Under Fire] New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof is visiting Iran this June and is requesting “themes and topics to ask about” during his time there. He’s not been to Iran for six years and…
Iranian minority gets local help: Louisvillian among those educating persecuted members of Baha’i faith
[19 May 2012] From a laptop computer in his Louisville home, Behrooz Sabet instructs university students in courses on research techniques, educational theory, curriculum development and the like. But these students live half a world away…
'I sit in a UK library and feel so sorry for my friends in Iran'
[The Times Higher Education, 22 December 2011, By Matthew Reisz] Baha’is denied access to state universities face a new threat to their institute. Matthew Reisz reports Once, during Ramadan in the mid-1990s, Erfan Sabeti was on…
Education under fire: INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE WEEKLY CONFERENCE CALL
EDUCATION UNDER FIRE’S INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE WEEKLY CONFERENCE CALL SUNDAY, JANUARY 15TH 5:00 – 6:00 EASTERN ************** Join KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Gissou Nia, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center’s Executive Director, who will be addressing us…
Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i
By Allan Rock, Lloyd Axworthy [huffingtonpost.ca, 5-Jan-2012] With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels…
Exciting EUF Weekly Conference Call, Guest Speakers: Bani Dugal (BIC), Mana Mostatabi (United4Iran)
EDUCATION UNDER FIRE’S EXPLOSIVE, INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE WEEKLY CONFERENCE CALL SUNDAY, JANUARY 8TH 5:00 – 6:00 EASTERN ************** Join keynote speaker, Bani Dugal, Education Under Fire documentary interviewee and Principal Representative of the Baha’i International Community to…
Heads of medical schools urge Iran to release jailed Baha'i educators
[BWNS, 8 Dec. 2011] WASHINGTON, D.C., United States — Almost 50 leaders of medical education in the United States have joined the worldwide protest against the Iranian government’s persecution of Baha’i students and educators. Forty-eight Deans…
Concerns for imprisoned Baha'i educators voiced in Senate
[BWNS 5 Dec. 2011] OTTAWA — At the Canadian Senate enquiry into the persecution of Iranian Baha’is, Canada’s first Muslim senator has strongly criticized Iran for its prosecution and imprisonment of Baha’i educators. Senator Mobina…
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