Bahá'í student expelled from Iranian university

An Iranian student belonging to one of the country's most persecuted religious minorities appears to have been expelled from university because of her beliefs, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan for the Guardian.

Paniz Fazl-Ali, a civil engineering student at Iran's University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Tehran, has been banned from continuing her undergraduate degree after it emerged that she is a member of the Bahá'í community, activists said. Only a few thousand students are accepted every year into top Iranian universities such as the IUST. On university registration forms, students are required to reveal their religion, but Bahá'ís, who are a banned religious minority, usually leave it blank – as did Fazl-Ali.

"Last month the university administrators summoned me and asked me to fill the section about my religion and I wrote Bahá'í," she told Daneshjoo News. "Last week, as I went to see one of my test results, I noticed that I have been expelled."
Full report on the Guardian site