Matthew Reisz reports how Baha’is denied access to state universities face a new threat to their Baha’i Institute for Higher Education. “[T]oday a dark cloud hangs over the future of the institute. A number of people with links to it were arrested in May and put on trial in September, prompting Nobel peace laureates Desmond Tutu and Jose Ramos-Horta, president of East Timor, to write an open letter of protest under the title "Iran's war against knowledge", which called for their immediate release.”