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		<title>Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education details struggle of Baha&#8217;i youth to receive a higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An in-depth story published in the Chronicle of Higher Education details the struggle for Baha&#8217;i youth to get a college education in Iran. It explains how the U.N. Human Rights Commission&#8217;s special representative on Iran in 1993 revealed a memorandum from an Iranian government official setting out a national policy that all Baha&#8217;is should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth anniversary of imprisonment of 7 former Baha&#8217;i leaders in Iran comes as persecution intensifies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Iranian Baha&#8217;i community’s former leadership group start their fifth year in prison today as persecution of the religious minority has intensified. The five men and two women formed a national-level ad hoc group that helped attend to the needs of Iran&#8217;s 300,000-member Baha&#8217;i community. They were sentenced in August 2010 to 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice of America broadcasts &#8216;Education Under Fire&#8217; documentary in Persian</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2012/05/08/voice-of-america-broadcasts-education-under-fire-documentary-in-persian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, Voice of America Persian aired the &#8220;Education Under Fire&#8221; documentary with a Persian language voice-over. The film describes how members of the Baha’i Faith in Iran have been denied access to higher education for three decades by the government. It is a story of resilience in the face of oppression. Here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Iranian Taboo&#8217; documentary detailing persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran to be screened in the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reza Allahmehzadeh, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who is a Dutch-Iranian national, has produced a documentary about the persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran entitled “Iranian Taboo.” Allahmehzadeh, who is not a Bahá’í, was banned from entering his homeland, so he asked his friends to film inside Iran. The film has already been screened in several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York City Bar calls for Iran to release imprisoned defense attorney Abdolfattah Soltani</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York has written an open letter calling upon Iran to reaffirm the rights of Iranian lawyers to practice their profession without governmental interference and to release prominent defense attorney Abdolfattah Soltani. Soltani has been in prison since he was arrested on Sept. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW VIDEO released in Angels of Iran documentary series: &#8220;A Voice for the Voiceless: Roxana Saberi&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2012/04/25/new-video-released-in-angels-of-iran-documentary-series-a-voice-for-the-voiceless-roxana-saberi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Education Under Fire initiative has announced the release of &#8221;A Voice for the Voiceless: Roxana Saberi&#8221; – the latest installment in the “Angels of Iran” documentary series. These short videos are personal stories of courage and resilience in the face of torture, imprisonment and execution in the Islamic Republic of Iran. &#8220;A Voice for the Voiceless&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Watch footage of the April 1 billboard campaign to free the Baha&#8217;i 7</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2012/04/18/video-watch-footage-of-the-april-1-billboard-campaign-to-free-the-bahai-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, people gathered in 12 cities around the world to support a mobile billboard campaign urging the Iranian government to free the seven Baha&#8217;i leaders. The event on April 1 marked a cumulative 10,000 days of imprisonment for them. Here is a video that stitched together footage from the events held in London, England; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sydney, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW VIDEO released in Angels of Iran documentary series: &#8220;For Kurdistan: The Soraya Fallah Story&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2012/04/16/new-video-released-in-angels-of-iran-documentary-series-for-kurdistan-the-soraya-fallah-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Education Under Fire initiative today announced the release of For Kurdistan, the Soraya Fallah Story – the latest installment in the seven-part “Angels of Iran” documentary series. These short videos are personal stories of courage and resilience in the face of torture, imprisonment and execution in the Islamic Republic of Iran. &#8220;For Kurdistan&#8221; is a profile [...]]]></description>
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