Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Student Name: Vafa Hoveydaie Degree: Bachelor – Admitted via Entrance Exam Major: Physics College: Engineering Physics and Energy Status: Account Closed (Deprived of Education) Synopsys: HRANA News Agency…
Education Is Not a Crime
Expelled from Amir Kabir University Because of Being a Bahá’í
Source: www.iranpressnews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Tuesday, 30 May 2017 Daneshjoo Online: “Despite pressures to recant his belief in Bahá’í Faith, Vesal Laghaifar, a Chemical Engineering undergraduate student, was expelled from Amir Kabir University in…
Murals as Symbols of Solidarity, Resilience
Source: news.bahai.org NEW YORK — Marthalicia Matarrita is a Latina artist from New York City. Although her life is a world away from Iran, Ms. Matarrita’s artwork connected her with Education is Not a Crime, a…
Sorrows and Dreams of Keyvan Rahimian, a Baha’i Teacher
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On the 22 and 23 of May 2013, Iranian intelligence agents, in a coordinated and widespread move across the country, stormed the homes of dozens of Baha’is…
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…
US-Iran Exchange Applicants Rejected at UC Berkeley – or Were They?
Source: EducationIsNotACrime Hundreds of UC Berkeley students took part in a social experiment – without knowing it – as part of an awareness-raising campaign for the denial of higher education to tens of thousands of…
Why Yale and Columbia Are Accepting Students from a University That Holds Classes in a Basement in Tehran
Source: qz.com WRITTEN BY Neha Thirani Bagri @NehaNotes Marjan Davoudi was 19 years old when she was told that she was not human. Davoudi, now 56, had been studying math at the National University in Tehran when…
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…
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…
Sogol Kazemi Deprived of Education in Fifth Semester
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Hrana News- Sogol Kazemi Bahnamiri, a Baha’i citizen, who was studying civil engineering at the non-profit University of Mashhad, was barred from continuing her education during her end-of-term exams.…
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…