Persecution and prosecution of Baha’is in Iran continues

Jun 12, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write about the continued and relentless persecution of the Baha’is community of Iran by the Iranian Authorities. Reports are that Wafa Hoveida’i, a student who was in the second semester of an undergraduate degree in the Department of Physics and Energy Engineering, has been expelled from Amir Kabir Polytechnic University of Iran, because of his Bahai beliefs. He learnt of the expulsion when his user’s page on the University’s website was blocked.
When he made enquiries, university officials told him he had been expelled because he was a Bahai. The same report says that Farzad Safa’i who has completed eight semesters of a degree in Industrial Metallurgy at the Free Islamic University of Ahwaz, was expelled in late May. He received a summons from the University Security office, and his user’s page on the University’s site was blocked. In a separate news report it is reported that Wessal Leqa’i-far, a student of Chemical Engineering, was also expelled at the end of his seventh semester, when he resisted pressure from two officials from the Ministry of Education to renounce the Bahai Faith.
At the end of his fourth semester he was also blocked, and in response to his enquiries the university officials told him this was because he is a Bahai. After repeated follow-ups he was able to win a promise that he could complete two more semesters.
A third report states that officials at the Payam-e Nour University campus in Kavar in Fars Province, have refused to issue a graduation diploma to Farzan Ma‘sumi He has completed the courses for a Bachelor in Political Science. The officials said they were acting on orders from the Bureau of Educational Assessments, and protests to the University would be fruitless. Farzan Ma‘sumi was arrested on February 12, 2017, along with Farhad Sabet, both students, when their homes were searched and religious and non-religious books, mobile phones and computers were seized, along with family photos and religious images. He was released on bail on 22nd February 2017.
Rooplall Dudhnath

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