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UTC Hosts 'To Light a Candle' Screening & Discussion 3/26

From a media release:

The story of the persecution of Iran’s Baha’is, and the creation of the Baha’i Institute for Higher
Education, are the subject of the film “To Light a Candle”, produced by the Iranian-Canadian
filmmaker Maziar Bahari. Maziar Bahari is the Iranian-Canadian journalist whose life is the
subject of Jon Stewart’s new film “Rosewater” and who has just released a memoir entitled
“Then They Came for Me” describing his own imprisonment and torture in Iran during the 2009
demonstrations in Tehran. The film “To Light a Candle” highlights the plight of the Bahá’ís in
Iran and the intense systematic persecution of this peaceful, religious minority in the hands of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. One of the cruel aspects of this persecution is denial of education to the
Iranian Bahá’í youth. The primary aim of this campaign is to remind the world of the unjust
imprisonment of courageous educators who—through the Institute for Bahá’í Higher Education
(BIHE)—were providing an alternative to educate the Bahá’í youth. With your voice, we can
make a difference. We can let the world know that access to education is a fundamental human
right and no one should be denied this right. Everyone has a part to play in this campaign.

Event:
Join us for a showing of “To Light a Candle” and discussion:

Education Is Not A Crime, 2015!
Refreshments: 7:45 p.m
Program- 8:00pm
Raccoon Mt. Room
UTC
March 26th

Free Admission. All are welcome.

Follow the Campaign at #educationisnotacrime