Source: www.en-hrana.org The Appellate Court of Tehran Province has maintained a nine-year sentence and additional penalties for Baha’i educator Keyvan Rahimian. In a verdict issued by Branch 36 of the Appellate Court of Tehran Province,…
Education Is Not a Crime
Decades of Persecution of Baha’i Educators and University Students Proves to Be a Precursor to Events in Present-Day Iran
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—12 October 2023—The recent dismissal of thousands of educators and students from Iranian universities and schools, just for expressing their support for equality and justice in Iran, recalls the purge of Baha’i professors,…
Saman’s School: Iranian Authorities Jail Education Pioneer for Being a Baha’i
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti “I cannot remember the exact moment when the idea of launching a school with a new system first took root in my mind; perhaps it began to start towards the…
The 2022 Award of a Spanish Association Went to the Iranian Baha’i Institute for Higher Education
Source: www.radiofarda.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Reports indicate that the 2022 prize of the Spanish “Liberpress” association went to the Iranian Baha’i Institute for Higher Education. The Liberpress Association announced that the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) deserves…
Baha’is Banned from Higher Education in Iran
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA has identified 60 Baha’is this year who sat for the nationwide university entrance exam and were banned from entering the university under the pretext of “document deficiencies.” The individuals who complained to the…
Baha’i Citizen Deprived of Continuing his Education in Zahedan
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News Agency – During the announcement of the results of the candidates applying to a program that needed no nationwide examination requirement at the University of Applied Sciences,…
Star-Crossed Students and ‘Incomplete’ Files: How Iran Bars Dissidents and Minorities from University
Source: iranwire.com Milad Poursia Barring religious minorities and political dissidents from universities has been a policy of the Islamic Republic’s policy since the 1984 – before which the universities had been closed by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah…
Four Baha’is Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Trying to Access Higher Education
Source: iranhumanrights.org The Baha’i faith community is one of the most severely persecuted religious minorities in Iran. Iran’s government is unabashed in its propagating of false narratives about the community and has for decades blocked Baha’is from…
New Evidence That Iran’s Denial of Higher Education to Baha’is Is Driven by Religious Prejudice
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—4 October 2021—Recent reports indicate that the Iranian government has affirmed and further entrenched its policy to bar members of the Baha’i Faith from university. Young Baha’is, who for decades have been denied…
Sina Shakib Expelled From University and Barred From Continuing His Studies Because of His Belief in the Baha’i Faith
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA ‒ Sina Shakib, a fourth semester student of statistics and applications at the Khansar School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Isfahan, has been expelled from the…
International Day of Education; An Overview of the Right to Education in Iran in 2020
Source: www.en-hrana.org HRANA – This report prepared by Human Rights Activists (HRA) honors the International Day of Education by bringing attention to the state of education in Iran, specially during the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent challenges…
How “Reformists” Tried to Placate the UN Over Discrimination Against Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Baha’is in Iran have been banned from entering higher education for forty years, since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. This mass state-sanctioned infringement of human rights can be separated into…
Baha’i University Candidates Summoned for Interrogation
Source: iranwire.com Young Baha’i would-be students who passed this year’s national university entrance exams in Iran have been hauled in by education officials for questioning. On Wednesday, November 11, a number of Baha’i candidates were summoned…
Barred From Iran, Baha’i Scientist Takes a Quantum Leap With Google
Source: iranwire.com Arash Azizi Pedram Roshan has not lived in Iran for about 20 years. Memories of his country of birth are “fading,” every day, he says. But he vividly remembers the best definition of physics…
Deprivation of Primary Care Services from Baha’i Health Care Professionals
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Officials at the Ministry of Health have repeatedly expressed concern about Iran’s serious shortage of doctors and nurses over the past few years. This shortage has become…
The 1980 Cultural Revolution and Restrictions on Academic Freedom in Iran
Source: Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Executive Summary The closure of Iranian universities in the spring of 1980, and the subsequent expulsion of hundreds of professors and students who were deemed to be at odds with…
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