community, the latest arrested group being involved in the program to provide university-level education for Baha’is denied entry to Iranian universities.
The Human Rights Reporters Committee said security officers had searched the homes of several staffers running the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), which is a distance-learning organization created when Baha’is were banned from Iranian universities after the revolution.
It said nine people involved with BIHE were arrested and a BIHE science and research center shut down.
Three years ago, the authorities arrested the seven Baha’is who constituted the board that oversaw administrative affairs for the Baha’i community. They have each been sentenced to 20-year prison terms.
With the latest arrests, it appears the regime is slowly attacking the apparatus that allows the Baha’is to function as a community.