Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti On the morning of Wednesday, November 15, Hasan Momtaz, a teacher for the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), was arrested at his mother’s home in Shiraz and taken to Adelabad Prison.…
Denial of Education
Three Young Baha’is Deprived of Education; Now Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Harana News Agency – Three Baha’i youth, Ruhyyeh Safajoo (21) and Tara Houshmand (21), and Sarmad Shadabi (22) have each been sentenced to five-years prison sentences. According to the…
Iranian Baha’i Students Offered University Enrollment in Exchange For Renouncing Their Faith
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Two members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran have been offered university enrollment in exchange for renouncing their religion, according to information received by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). According…
More Than 115 Iranian Baha’is Have Banned from Universities
Source: iranwire By Kian Sabeti 115 Iranian Baha’is have banned from universities. This year the officials told Baha’is who had passed the entrance exams they might be able to study, but they said they need…
More than 70 Iranian Baha’is Denied University In September
Source: en.radiofarda.com By Mahtab Vahidi Rad More than 70 Baha’i students have reportedly been denied entry to universities in Iran despite successfully passing the national admissions tests. According to some sources, the number of Baha’is who…
Laeya Shaerzadeh Expelled from University after Three Terms of Study
Source: Human Rights activist, Hamid Reza Dehghan Tabrizi Translation by Iran Press Watch Laeya Shaerzadeh, a Baha’i citizen and undergraduate student studying at the University of Hafez in Shiraz, has been expelled due to her…
At Thirty Years Old, Navid Khanjani Celebrates the Sixth Anniversary of His Incarceration in Rajai Shahr Prison
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Navid Khanjani, a Baha’i citizen and human rights activist, has celebrated the anniversary of six consecutive years in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. According to the Human Rights in…
Religion Question on Job Application Forms Is Key to Social Exclusion of Baha’is
Source: www.bbc.com Translation by Iran Press Watch The religion question on job application forms in Iran has become a major crisis for those citizens of the country whose religion is not recognized by the government. According…
Twin Brother and Sister Expelled from University Due to Their Belief in the Baha’i Faith
Source: adian.bashariyat.org Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Shakib and Shima Mohammadalipour were expelled from Lorestan University School of Technology and Engineering, and Kashan University School of Architecture and Liberal Arts, due to their…
Another Student Expelled From University in Iran For Baha’i Faith
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Farzad Safaei was one semester away from a bachelor’s degree in industrial metallurgy at the Islamic Azad University in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, when he was expelled on May 20, 2017 by the security office for…
Denied Education for Being a Baha’i: Grievance of the Highest Ranked Student in Iran’s “Nationwide University Entrance Exam”
Source: ettelaat.net October 2008 Translation by Iran Press Watch To Human Right Activists in Iran: My name is Sima Haghighat Mohlebani, daughter of Esmail, with SSN no 5287 from Tehran. I was born in 1961. For…
Niloufar Mousavi Expelled From University for Being a Baha’i
Source: BahaiNews1 March 14, 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Niloufar Mousavi was expelled from university at the end of her first semester exams, because of her belief in the Baha’i Faith.…
Deprivation of Education for Afrooz Zabihi, a Baha’i Student in Her Fifth Semester
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA NEWS – Fifth Term Civil Engineering student from Shahid Beheshti University, Baha’i Afrooz Zabihi, was banned from continuing her education after completing 90 credit hours, because of her religious…
Mahsa Sha’erzadeh Expelled from University Because she is a Baha’i, at the Demand of the Office of Information
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Baha’i News, Mahsa Sha’erzadeh, a Baha’i citizen of Ramhormoz in Khuzestan province, was expelled from Payam-i-Noor University because of her belief in the Baha’i Faith. According…
Pooya Azami Expelled from University Because of His Belief in the Baha’i Faith
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on a report from Baha’i News, Pooya Azami Aghje, a resident of Tehran, was expelled from the Islamic Azad University of Roudehen because of his belief in…
He Couldn’t Get Higher Education in Iran — Now He’s Running an Ed Tech Startup
Source: money.cnn.com By by Sara Ashley O’Brien @saraashleyo In Baha’i faith, education is of utmost importance. So it makes sense that Shakib Zabihian, a Baha’i programmer who fled religious persecution in Iran in 2013, is behind an…
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