HRANA – Nura Sabet, a Bahá’í Student deprived of the right to education, has sent a letter to HRANA, delineating the educational system’s discriminatory approach to her case on the basis of her belief in the Bahá’í Faith.
Here is the letter in its entirety:
My name is Nura Sabet, a Bahá’í student in 8th grade. I learned of a recent news report that in order to participate in the entry exam for the magnet high school in the area, I need a sealed letter from my current school attesting that I was an enrolled student in good standing. Continue reading “A Letter Written by a Student Deprived of the Right to Education”
* This article has been developed for the human rights community and civil rights activists to clarify and spread awareness about the trial of a Baha’i person and his confessions.
After nearly three decades of social and economic pressures on Iran’s Baha’i community, over the past two years, alongside its other dark deeds, the Islamic Republic of Iran has strengthened its resolve to place the Baha’i community in Iran under helpless oppression through full-scale and historically unparalleled repression, and set a new record for repression of religious minorities. Under the current conditions in Iran, one can only speculate about what plans and strategies the ruling leadership has for unrelenting pressure on the Baha’i community. In this note, after a brief review of existing circumstances, we will review two likely scenarios: Continue reading “Islamic Government, Domestic Crisis and the Baha’i Community in Iran”
