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…
Denial of Education
Conversation with Student Expelled from University for Being Baha’i
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Because of her Baha’i beliefs, Shaghayegh Karamnezhad is one of the six students who have been expelled from Rudehen University this month. Exactly two weeks prior to her…
Sepena Shadabi Expelled from University in his 6th Semester
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Sepena Shadabi, a Baha’i resident of Kermanshah, was expelled from Kermanshah Islamic Azad University. According to informed sources, this student, who had taken 104 credits and…
Disabled Student Barred from University for Being Baha’i
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by BahaiNews, Nasim Mahboub Rahvafa is a Baha’i resident of Shiraz who was barred from entering university after successful participation in the Iranian University Entrance Examination…
Expulsion of Six Baha’i Students from Islamic Azad University of Roudehen
Source: BahaiNews1 Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch On 31 December 2016, six Baha’i citizens who were students at Islamic Azad University of Roudehen were expelled because of their belief in the…
Bahai Student Expelled in Orumiyeh
Source: Tavaana Translation by Iran Press Watch Last week Shokoufeh Ranjbar, a midwifery student in Orumiyeh, was expelled from the University after she had completed eighty credits of education because she is a Baha’i. According…
Pegah Dehghani, a Baha’i, Expelled from University
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i News Press, Pegah Dehghani Muhammadi, a Baha’i resident of Tehran province, has been expelled from university due to her belief in the Baha’i Faith. Based…
Two Baha’i Students Expelled from University Due to Religious Belief
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org Date: 16th January 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch Dorna Esmailie and Maedeh Hossieni Rad, from the cities of Shiraz and Esfahan, were expelled from university because of their belief as Baha’is. According to…
Top Ranking Baha’i Student Expelled from University Due to His Religious Belief
Source: www.bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from the “No to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’is in Iran” Campaign, Nima Ighanian, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was expelled from university because…
UN General Assembly Rebukes Iran for Human Rights Record
Source: www.news.bahai.org NEW YORK — Today the international community firmly denounced a wide range of human rights violations in Iran. By a vote of 85 to 35 with 63 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly approved…
2000 Baha’is and Human Rights Activists to Rouhani: “Provide Education to Baha’is”
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch More than two thousand Baha’is inside and outside of Iran, as well as a number of human rights activists and some former student activists, in a letter to Hassan…
One Hundred Twenty Nine Baha’i Students Prevented from Pursuing Higher Education
Source: www.iranwire.com Translation by Iran Press Watch By Kian Sabeti On September 18 this year, as for the last twenty years, tens of Baha’i applicants were not allowed to select a major and were denied admittance…
Baha’i Citizen Deprived of Education at an Institute of Higher Education
source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by “BahaiNews”, Faraz Karin Kani Seysan, a student of Civil Engineering, has been prevented from being able to continue his education because of his belief in…
Young Woman’s Quest for Higher Education Exposes Iran’s Discrimination Against Baha’is
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Rouhie Safajoo, a student banned from Iranian universities because of her Baha’i faith and arrested for her online activism, was released on March 27, 2016 on 500 million rials (about $16,500 USD) bail, nearly…
Iran: Baha’i Student Writes of Being Deprived of Higher Education
Source: freedomessenger.com Delaram Akbari, a Baha’i college student in the city of Sari, northern Iran, studying computer software, was expelled from college on January 13 after finishing her first term. She writes about the difficulties she…
Baha’i Education Rights Activsit Registers for Nationwide University Entry Exam While in Prison
Source: BahaiNews1 The annual registration of Vahed Kholusi for the nationwide university entrance examination is a symbolic act by this education rights activists in protest against the 12 year long deprivation of this Iranian Baha’i…
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