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	<title>Persecution of Bahá&#039;ís in Iran &#187; MEDIA COVERAGE</title>
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		<title>Detailed Kansas City Public Radio Report on Religious Freedom for Baha&#8217;is in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/12/29/detailed-kansas-city-public-radio-report-on-religious-freedom-for-bahais-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a group that prides itself on tolerance, Baha’is have drawn a lot of intolerance, especially in Iran, where the religion originated. Ever since Baha’i began, its followers have come under attack by fundamentalist Muslims. An early incarnation of Baha’is, the Babis, saw 20,000 of their members killed in the mid-19th century, and Baha’is founder, Baha’u’llah, spent most of his life either in prison or in exile.]]></description>
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		<title>Times Higher Education article: &#8220;Baha&#8217;is denied access to state universities face a new threat to their institute&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/12/22/times-higher-education-article-bahais-denied-access-to-state-universities-face-a-new-threat-to-their-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, during Ramadan in the mid-1990s, Erfan Sabeti was on his way to an all-day genetics class at the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education in Tehran.]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent U.S. professors sign global letter, denounce restrictions on freedom of education in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/10/10/prominent-u-s-professors-sign-global-letter-denounce-restrictions-on-freedom-of-education-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attacks such as these, against the rights of citizens to organize and be educated in freedom, can no longer be tolerated. We call upon the Iranian government not only to cease its persecution of Bahá’ís, but to provide, and promote, education for all.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Electric&#8217; program on Iran&#8217;s struggle for human rights sponsored by Baha&#8217;is in Southern California</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/09/28/electric-program-on-irans-struggle-for-human-rights-sponsored-by-bahais-in-southern-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://iran.bahai.us/?p=4604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood star Rainn Wilson and actress/activist Shiva Rose hosted an audience of 1,300 at the Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA, in mid-September for an evening dedicated to human rights in Iran. The program combined arts, panel discussions and a keynote address by Iranian-born journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari who recently published a book about his incarceration in Iran in 2009. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trials underway in Iran for Baha&#8217;i educators; &#8216;Education Under Fire&#8217; campaign launches with open letter from Nobel laureates</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/09/26/bihe-trials-coincide-with-launch-of-education-under-fire-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The release of an open letter from two Nobel Peace Prize winners regarding the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education coincided with the first round of trials for imprisoned staff members of the beleaugured Institute. Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta called for an end to education discrimination in Iran in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOA Editorial: More Religious Persecution In Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/08/18/voa-editorial-more-religious-persecution-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;While Iran&#8217;s leaders hypocritally claim to promote tolerance, they continue to detain, imprison, harass, and abuse those who simply wish to worship the faith of their choosing.&#8221; &#8212; U.S. Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Read entire editorial here. Excerpt Earlier this month, Iranian authorities reportedly refused to allow a Baha&#8217;i family to bury a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British novelist Jon Stock explores Iranian government&#8217;s persecution of Baha&#8217;is</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/08/09/british-novelist-jon-stock-explores-iranian-governments-persecution-of-bahais/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British spy novelist Jon Stock featured the Iranian government&#8217;s persecution of Baha&#8217;is as a central element of Dead Spy Running. The book was published in 2009 by Thomas Dunne Books and is slated to be made into a movie set for release in 2014. In fact, the book’s climactic scene takes place outside the Baha’i House of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Conspiracy&#8221; charges leveled against Bahai educators with looming deadline to release or formally charge</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/07/28/conspiracy-charges-leveled-against-bahai-educators-with-looming-deadline-to-release-or-formally-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven Baha’is charged with “conspiracy against national security” for operating an institute for higher education

Iranian authorities faced a deadline two months after the May 21st raids carried out on more than thirty Baha’i homes* connected to the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education. Under Iranian law, the authorities had to either formally charge defendants or set the prisoners free.

The Baha'i International Community just learned that charges have been laid and 11 of the 19 individuals originally detained in the raids will continue to be held in detention*. The remaining 8 individuals were released over time since the raids.]]></description>
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