Source: Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (facebook group) Shadi Shirazi, a math student with top tier ranks in her entrance exams was denied admission to university because of her religious beliefs in Baha’i faith, according…
Denial of Education
Bahai Student Expelled from University in Miandoab
Source: PCED (facebook group) http://goo.gl/Ljav7L Translation by Sen’s Daily at http://wp.me/pNMoJ-25E Yalda Na’imeyan, a student at the Payam-e Nur University in Miandoab, has been expelled from the university after five semesters of study because of her Bahai…
A Note from the Heart by a Baha’i Girl Named Ruhieh about the Denial of Her University Appilcation
Source: Tavaana: E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society, http://goo.gl/HKBzUD 08/03/2014 Translation by Iran Press Watch The Nationwide University Entry Exam results have been sent out, but some received this message instead, because they were Baha’is. …
Court of Administrative Justice Rejects a Baha’i Student’s Complaint against the Ministry of Higher Education
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 HRANA News Agency – A deprived Baha’i student’s complaint against the Ministry of Higher Education was rejected by the Court of Administrative Justice. Based…
Parham Aqdassi, Expelled Nuclear Physics Student Atcity of Hamedan’s Bu Ali Sina University
Parham Aqdassi, expelled nuclear physics student /ABF Interview Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation March 26, 2014 Interview Interview dates: September 2, 2009 (prior to leaving Iran) and October 2, 2013 (Subsequent to leaving Iran) 1. I took…
Javad Larijani: People are not deprived of education or put on trial solely because of being Baha’is
[BBC Persian] Mohammad Javad Larijani*, the secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights, has rejected “any form of discrimination and violation of rights, due to being a Baha’i” in Iran, and said that people…
Apology of Dr. Mohammad Maleki to Taraneh, Who Has Been Deprived of Her Right to Higher Education
Sources: nurizad.info Translation by Iran Press Watch It was last night that Dr. Maleki1 invited me to go to house of Taraneh Taefi, a 17 year old girl that our Islamic Government, using the excuse of…
At least 30 Baha’i students taking the University Entrance Exam, faced with the claim of “Incomplete Files”
[taghato.net, 23 Shahrivar, 1392] After assuming his new position as the Minister of Higher Education in Iran, Mr. Jafar Toufighi, in repeated statements has declared that no student would be blacklisted for political or religious…
“Incomplete File”
[nurizad.info. 17 Sep. 2013] One of the officials of the ministry of Higher Education approached me at a gathering, and in a shivering voice which was an indication of his deep worry, fear and sadness,…
letter by Rayyan Hessami, Faran’s sisteR
The letter by Rayyan Hessami – Faran’s sister A week had passed, and Artin did not say his mom’s name even once. When I told him on the phone that I am coming from Shiraz…
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…
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…
A letter from Sama Nourani
[www.edu-right.net] Sama Nourani, 21 years old, was expelled from the National University of Tabriz, Iran, because he was a member of the Baha’i Faith. He merely questioned the university administrators regarding his expulsion. He was then…
'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…
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