Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch “Babak Beheshti Vadeghan” was among several Baha’i citizens whose homes were targeted in a coordinated series of raids on May 22, 2011, by security forces of…
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Iran Tried To Deny Their Education, So These Baha’is Went Underground
Source: www.buzzfeed.com Canadian universities are now recognizing degrees from an underground school for the religious minority. Anisa Rawhani At each ring of his phone, Shakib Nasrullah and his family jumped. The caller ID was blocked, but…
Interview with BIHE Instructor
Source: Amber Lee (facebook page) By Amber Lee It’s easy to take education for granted. I met a Cal State East Bay professor who teaches economics to students on campus. But when he’s off, he…
Two Years Have Passed Since the Imprisonment of Nasim Bagheri
Source: bazdasht.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Bazdasht, 27 April 2016 is the second anniversary of the imprisonment of Nasim Bagheri. Mrs Nasim Bagheri was born in Tehran in 1983. She was arrested on…
Not a Crime’s Very Own Harlem Renaissance
Source: en.iranwire.com By Saleem Vaillancourt David “Rabi” Torres, one-half of the artist duo Cyrcle, painted this “Mad in Iran” broken ruler in Harlem. New York, US The Not A Crime campaign is back in New York to paint a…
Imprisoned BIHE Educator with Heart Disease Denied Medical Treatment
Source: exilesactivist.wordpress.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23 January, 2015 Activists in Exile: Foad Moghaddam*, a physician and one of the managers of the online university of the Baha’is, despite heart problems and other health issues,…
Imprisoned BIHE Professor Writes to His Grandchildren about BIHE and Importance of Education
Source: taraneh.org Translation by Iran Press Watch A letter from Farhad Sedghi in Rajai Shahr prison, addressed to his three grandchildren, who just started school for the first time in September 2014 To my grandchildren, With…
A Letter from the Heart by an Iranian Baha’i Prisoner to the Iranian People
Source: hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch A point of view which has not yet changed since at least 30 years ago. HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency) – Ramin Zibaei* is a Baha’i Institute for…
Letter from the Baha’i Professors in Rajai-Shahr Prison to the Country’s Intellectuals
Source: http://www.irangreenvoice.com/article/2014/jun/12/44119 Translation by Iran Press Watch The Green Freedom Call Date: June 12, 2014 In a letter to Iran’s intellectuals from Rajai-Shahr Prison, a group of professors, managers and associates of the Baha’i Institute for…
The Thrill of Studying in an Undergound University
7/7/77! (This Persian date is equal to Sept 28, 1998) In many countries and cultures, seven is a lucky number; but for the Baha’is of Iran it does not represent luck – rather, it stands…
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A Conversation in Prison, The Story of their Trials and Tribulations
[roozonline] Sunday, April 13 2014 A Conversation in Prison, The Story of their Trials and Tribulations Massoud Bastani, Rajai Shahr Prison Little Artin has no role in this story, but he is the pivotal point…
Interview with an Iranian Baha'i Student
Last winter semester (2007/08) 1000 Baha’i students had passed their entrance exams for university. 800 of them were denied entrance because of “incomplete files”. Sholeh is one of them. We hear her story… What made…
Muslim Students Protest Baha’i Expelled from Iranian University
(From MidEastYouth.org) One of the weapons the Iranian government has employed to suppress its Baha’i population is denying its youth their right to an education, in what can only be described as an intellectual cleansing.…