Iranian Baha'i students shut out of vocational education

Bahai World: Iranian Baha'is seeking to enter Iran's technical and vocational institutes have been effectively barred from admission for the coming academic year, since the application to sit for the entrance examinations leaves them with no option but to deny their faith, which Baha'is refuse to be coerced into doing.

The Baha'i International Community learned recently that the 2007 form for the entrance examination for undergraduate courses under the technical and vocational education system indicates that only one box may be marked for religion.

The applicant is given three choices - Zoroastrian, Jewish, or Christian - and if none of the boxes is marked, the form explains, the applicant will be considered Muslim. This is unacceptable to Baha'is.

More on the treatment of Bahai's in Iran:

Intensification of persecution against Iran’s Baha'is provoked by Information Ministry

Reports and documents filtering out of Iran over the last six months indicate an intensification of the calculated, widespread and long-term effort by the government to persecute the Iranian Baha'is, the country's largest religious minority.
Baha'i schoolchildren in Iran increasingly harassed and abused by school authorities

In yet another escalation of the persecution of Baha'is in Iran, Baha'i children in primary and secondary school are the latest targets of abuse.
Iranian Baha'is facing another "cycle of repression," says report

Baha'is in Iran have been persecuted since the Baha'i Faith began in that country in the mid-1800s. Their persecution by the Islamic government has come in waves. In a recently released 60-page study, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (located in New Haven, Connecticut) reports that Iranian Baha'is, who number about 300,000 are facing yet another cycle of repression.


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Previously:
10 Women in Shiraz (Executed because of their Bahai faith)

New Waves of Attacks On Iranian Bahá’ís Continue (Story of 16-year old Mona who was hanged by the regime because of her faith)