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Iranwire – A student at the University of Isfahan’s Khansar School of Mathematics and Computer Science has been expelled for being a Baha’i.
Sina Shakib first discovered he had been kicked out on April 19 after trying to log into the school’s intranet to take part in an online class.
According to HRANA news agency, he then contacted the university’s education department only to be told that he was barred from continuing his studies.
Confidential letters had been exchanged between the university and the Ministry of Education in a selection process known as gozinesh: the assessment of a person’s eligibility based on religious and ethnic criteria, which since 1985 has been used to lock Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities out of full participation in civic life.
Shakib was born in 2001 and is a fourth-semester student of statistics and applications at the University of Isfahan.
His two sisters, and their mother before them, were also subjected to gozinesh and lost out on their higher education because they were Baha’is.
Sara Shakib was expelled from Kashan National University in her first semester in 2015, while Samira Shakib was locked out of completing her university application in 2018 due to the now-infamous “incomplete dossier” error message the online system shows to Baha’is.
