Administrators of University for Bahais Acted Against "National Security"

11 arrested for running website for Bahais banned in Iranian universities

بی بی سی: یازده نفر از بهاییان ایران که حدود ۹ هفته پیش دستگیر شده بودند، به اقدام علیه امنیت ملی متهم شده اند. این افراد از مدیران و کارکنان یک موسسه آموزش عالی نیمه حضوری و آنلاین بودند که با هدف تامین نیازهای تحصیلی جوانان بهایی که بعد از انقلاب از ورود به دانشگاه های دولتی محروم بوده اند، تاسیس شده است. علی همدانی گزارش می دهد:




01-Aug-2011
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Education is the birthright of all

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Ali Najafi

Thank you....

by Ali Najafi on

Ghormeh Sabzi, thank you for posting the BBC Persian clip. It is really inspiring for me to reflect on how human beings will struggle to educate themselves and to develop their minds.

It is hard to imagine that people, in modern times, are denied education because of their religious beliefs, gender, or color of their skin. When I think of apartheid South Africa or the current day Islamic Republic of Iran it makes me sad to see the hatred and blind prejudice of some government towards their own citizens.

For 30 years, instead of encouragement from the Iranian government, the young Baha'is have been challenged at every step, tormented in their schools, and denied access to higher education. Reflecting on this, makes me appreciate my freedom to be educated, to further my own mind, and to have the ability to contribute my knowledge to advancing society.

Thank you :-)

 


Freethought111

How come nothing about this on this site?

by Freethought111 on

In March, over 200 Gonabadi Sufis were summoned to courts around the
country to answer allegations that they were insulting Iranian
authorities. In April, eight other Sufis were re-arrested on charges of
disrupting public order – charges for which they had been punished with
flogging and imprisonment.

//www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/rm/2011/169180.htm


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My own experience.

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I know 2 men (kind of friends) who studied dentistry at a University for Bahais in Iran, and they completed final years in a US university.  This is from 18 years ago, and it was not underground.  We also had several Bahais neighbors who were executed.  Though I don't know what the reason was (I never see a reason to killing someone), they always identified themselves as Bahais.  In such a danagerous government if someone identifies himself as Bahais (in person or in a University entrance form), I call him an activist, which is a dedicated step towards ecouraging rights of human being in Iran.  Still, dead is dead.  We are not going to create a "true Iran" by a non-function dead body.  I don't believe on "Shahid". The word of "shahid" always reminds me of "shahid Fahmideh".