Arrests are part of official campaign to block development of Iranian Baha’is « halifaxbahai.org

Arrests are part of official campaign to block development of Iranian Baha’is

NEW YORK, 25 May 2011 (BWNS) – The raids carried out on some 30 homes of Baha’is, who were offering education to young community members barred by the government from university, is the latest action in Iran’s ongoing policy to keep its largest non-Muslim religious minority on the margins of society.

Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Baha’is have been systematically deprived of higher education. With nowhere else to turn, the community initiated its own educational programmes.

“The Iranian authorities are clearly determined to make it impossible for the Baha’i community to educate its youth whose opportunities are blocked by the state,” said Bani Dugal, Principal Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations.

“Denying people the right to education is a denial of their right to exist as free and productive human beings – and to make a contribution to their society,” she said.

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