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…
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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…
Iranian University Conceals Evidence of Expelling Baha’i Students for Religious Beliefs
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Fifteen Baha’i Students Expelled in December and January At least 15 Baha’i students were expelled from Iranian universities between December 2016 and January 2017, with university officials trying to eliminate any trace of the…
Iran: Overcoming Persecution to Graduate
Source: Study International Staff The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects…
Expulsion of Another Bahá’í Student, This Time in Shiraz
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch Ms. Nikouseresht told “Iranwire”: “After the end of the class on Wednesday, 28 December, I went to the university website to check my status, and I…
Iqan Shahidi Was Released from Rajai-Shahr Prison, After Five Years
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Iqan Shahidi, an activist for education rights, was released from Rajai-Shahr Prison on 1 January 2017, after completing his sentence. On 2 March 2010, Shahidi and several education and…
Studying at the Bahai Secret University
Source: www.bbc.com By Lipika PelhamNew York The largest non-Muslim minority in Iran, the Bahais, are persecuted in many ways – one being that they are forbidden from attending university. Some study in secret, but for those…
Expulsion of a Baha’i Couple from Payame-Noor University in Yazd Province
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch As reported by BahaiNews, a young Baha’i couple ‒ Azadeh Zolfaghari and Masoud Ghadirzadeh ‒ were expelled from university, owing to their belief in the Baha’i Faith. Based…
Expulsion of Baha’i Farinaz Mokhtari from Birjand University
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, Farinaz Mokhtari, a Baha’i resident of Birjand, has been expelled from Birjand Women’s Technical & Vocational College because of her belief in the Baha’i Faith.…
Azita Rafizadeh’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: The Concurrence of My Husband’s and My Imprisonment Will Harm My Child
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – Azita Rafizadeh, an imprisoned Baha’i in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, wrote an open letter to Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani in which she raised the concurrence…
Refusal to Send Navid Khanjani to the Medical Examiner in Rajai Shahr Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA – The Rajai Shahr prison authorities did not allow Navid Khanjani, human rights activist detained in this prison, to be transported to the medical; examiner yesterday, because of…
The Crush Continues: Rouhani and the Ban on Baha’i Education
Source: www.iranwire.com AIDA GHAJAR President Hassan Rouhani and his government have failed to ease pressure on Iran’s Baha’i community. In fact, in some cases, the persecution against Iran’s largest religious minority has intensified. Since Rouhani and…
Mona Houshmand, a Baha’i Student, Expelled from University of Bojnord
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch More than two and a half months since announcing the file deficiencies of 129 Iranian Baha’i students and depriving them of higher education in September of…
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