Seyed Morteza Nourbakhsh
- Director of Ideological Screening of National Educational Testing Organisation (May 2002 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Violation Bahai minority’s rights (May 2002 - present) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to education, Right to freedom of religion and belief, Right to non-discrimination
- Description
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As director of ideological screening at the National Organization of Educational Testing, Nourbakhsh has been instrumental in preventing Baha'is from continuing their education, by communicating orders and formulating discriminatory student selection mechanisms.
- Sources
"Head of Student Selection Secretariat: The news that some students were blacklisted this year is a lie", Isca News, December 10, 2017 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/خبر-ستاره-دار-شدن-دانشجویان-در-سال-جاری-کذب-است.pdf
“Criteria for Student Selection”, The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution Enactment, 1988 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/مرکز-پژوهشها-ضوابط-گزینش-دانشجو.pdf
“Blacklisted Tehran University Student Activist Detained Incommunicado”, Centre for Human Rights in Iran, 16 Dec 2019
“129 Baha’is Banned from Education”, IranWire, 6 Feb 2017 https://iranwire.com/en/features/4351
- Human Rights Violation: Violation Bahai minority’s rights (May 2002 - present) read more