[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…
Denial of Education
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…
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…
Bahai’s in Iran: seven educators sent to prison amid fresh persecution
[huffingtonpost.co.uk, 11-Nov-2011, by Dr. Khishan Manocha] The tide of persecution in Iran is rising. In a fresh wave of attacks against the Bahá’í community – Iran’s largest religious minority – three women were arrested on…
Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”
[iranhumanrights.org, 2 Nov. 2011] 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 Court will…
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: “Children of Arrested Baha’is: ‘We Have No Recourse’”
[bahai.us, 3 Nov. 2011] iranhumanrights.org, Nov. 2 – Following the sentencing of seven Baha’isassociated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the…
Baha’i Student Farnod Jahangiri Expelled from Babolsar University
Source: www.en-hrana.org [HRA 28-Oct-2011] HRANA News Agency – Baha’i student Farnod Jahangiri was expelled from Babolsar University in Mazandaran Province on October 12, 2011.
Iran’s Outcast Religion
By FIRUZ KAZEMZADEH In some 40 years as a university professor, I have been privileged to teach students who went on to serve their people as senators, ambassadors, prominent scholars and even U.S. president. None of…
Iran Punishes the Baha’i for the Crime of Education
[cfr.org, 18 Oct. 2011] Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 By Elliott Abrams The viciousness of the Iranian regime toward Iranians of the Baha’i faith was displayed again today in the sentencing of seven Baha’i educators to years…
SBS News – Aussies rally for Bahai academics
The Aussies rally covered by SBS [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-z5gibmukc[/youtube]
Aussies rally for Baha'i academics
[World News Australia, 20 Oct. 2011] Students in Wollongong have joined a campaign protesting against educational discrimination in Iran. [Click here or on the image to see the video]
Iran outlaws education for Baha’is: thousands denied higher education
[Huffington Post, 9 Sep. 2011, Dr. Kishan Manocha] “A fresh measure of tribulation has befallen the Bahá’ís” in Iran. The warning, issued last week by the Bahá’í International Community, is given in an open letter to the…
Report exposes Iran's media campaign to demonize Baha'is
[BWNS, 21 Oct. 2011] NEW YORK — In a wide-ranging media campaign that has gone largely unnoticed outside of Iran, hatred and discrimination are being systematically stirred up against the country’s 300,000-member Baha’i minority. In a…
World religious experts, educators condemn Iran’s attack on Baha’is
[Green Heritage News, 10 Oct. 2011] NEW YORK, Carol Forsloff – Iran’s persecution of Baha’is continues in a country where those of minority religious views not only have their spiritual life restricted but their education as…
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