(RAHANA, 25 July 2011 ) Baha’i citizen and education rights activist Ighan Shahidi has been sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Denial of Education
Baha’i Citizen Mona Rezaei Arrested
(RAHANA 27 June 2011) Baha’i citizen Mona Rezaei who had been deprived of continuing her education has been arrested.
The Sydney Morning Herald: When learning goes underground
[Sydney, 27 June 2011] The Baha’i faithful of Iran are getting their degrees with a little help from their friends at universities in Australia, writes Leesha McKenny. ACADEMIC Didar Zowghi describes meeting one of her…
BRFC Condemns Iranian Government Attack on Baha’i Education Initiative
BFRC (BHRWS) May 25, 2011 — Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain – The Bahrain Religious Freedom Committee(BRFC) strongly condemns the coordinated raids by Iranian authorities this weekend on numerous Baha’i homes and the arrests of more than a dozen Baha’is who have…
Exemplary life of service "in the face of relentless oppression"
[BWNS, 16 June 2011] SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA,United States — Right up until his final moments, Valiollah Toosky’s thoughts were in Iran, with his students and colleagues at the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). His sister…
Iranian Authorities raid an online learning network
[movements.org, MAY 25, 2011] BY ASHIYAN RAHMANI-SHIRAZI This past weekend, amidst continued, under-the-radar simmering of Green Movement activities, an online educational network for Baha’i youth was raided. The Baha’i[s] are, at about 300,000 people, the largest non-Muslim religious…
Worldwide outrage at Iran's attack on Baha'i educators
[BWNS 14 June 2011] GENEVA — Governments, organisations and educators have condemned Iran’s latest attack on an initiative offering higher education to young Baha’is barred from university. The government of Austria, more than 80 prominent Indians, and…
Official character of Baha'i expulsions in Iranian university revealed
In light of the recent attacks on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (www.bihe.org), Iran press Watch is re-posting a few articles thats sheds light on the nature of the attacks of the Islamic Republic…
Petition to the Iranian Government for Immediate Release of the staff and faculty of the Bahá'í Institute of Higher Education
We, the concerned citizens of the Republic of India, wish to place on record our strongest remonstration for the brutal and senseless persecution of the Baha’is in general and the academic staff and administrators of…
Is the right to education, the right of every Iranian citizen today?
The right to education, proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and guaranteed by the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights – which has been signed and ratified by Iran – stresses…
Stand up for Iranian Bahá’ís’ right to a higher education
The Guardian, Saturday 11 June 2011 Exams are here for students across the country. In Iran, too, students are busy at university – but not if they are Bahá’ís. The youth of Iran’s largest religious minority were…
Keeping the Faith
(Australia, Dubbo Weekender, 4 June 2011) With the arrest in Iran last week of Farhad Sedghi, brother and brother-in-law of respected local bsuiness people Nasser and Farzin, the decades-long persecution of the Baha’i faithful in…
Austria's Foreign Minister: "Rights of the Bahá’í community in Iran must be protected"
Press release of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, dated June 1st , 2011 Spindelegger: „Rights of the Bahá’í community in Iran must be protected” Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger expresses his concern about repression…
CNN: For Baha’i educators, a lesson in power from Iran
Source: edition.cnn.com (By Mitra Mobasherat and Joe Sterling, 2 June 2011, CNN) — The three Iranian security officers rang the doorbell, politely informed the man of his arrest, thoroughly searched the house, confiscated high-tech gear and books,…
Illicit education: Bahai's struggle to educate their youth
The recent raid by the Government of Iran on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) is not the only raid that BIHE has suffered. Below is a glimpse of a previous raid on the…
They dedicated their lives to a noble purpose …
They dedicated their lives to a noble purpose Innocent victims, imprisoned for their beliefs Their suffering knew no bounds, Only comforted by prayerful sounds Their children suffer the same fate, Subjected to an endless hate…
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