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…
Denial of Education
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…
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…
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…
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