PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN IRAN (23 November 2005)

That this House notes that members of Iran's largest religious minority, the Bahá'ís, remain denied access to education; observes that despite recent changes to the university entrance examination form Iranian Bahá'ís have been falsely recorded as having a Muslim identity and that the authorities have declined to correct such errors; believes that there is a clear policy on the part of the Iranian government to deny Bahá'ís access to higher education on grounds of their religious beliefs; and urges the UK Government to make representations to the Iranian authorities to end this manifestly unjust policy.

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Lembit Öpik (Liberal Democrat)