Shiite students face bias in S Arabia, admissions withdrawn

By: Abdulali/ Shila Abulhasan/ Ali Muradi

DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia: Saudi authorities have deprived more than 90 Shiite students from their right of studying the nursing, sources said.

According to details ninety-five Shiite girl students were denied of admission in the Faculty of health Sciences for girls in Dammam after the Minister of Health gave approval for their study in the faculty, and their names were spread in the local newspapers and the ministry site.

More than 4,500 graduates (girls and boys) of the current year from different regions of kingdom were accepted in health faculties and institutes belonging to Ministry of Health, and thereafter their names were published in the Ministry of Health site and also in the newspapers issued Tuesday 3rd of Jamady II (6th month of Islamic calendar), with a warning to all of the accepted students from the general supervisor of the administration of health institutes and faculties under the ministry to contact quickly the prescribed faculties and institutes for the completion of rest of the necessary measures within two weeks from the mentioned date.

The students made contact with the faculties and institutes wherein they were accepted and directed. But, the Faculty of Health Sciences for girls in Dammam refused to receive the 95 Shiite students despite they were accepted in the faculty by health ministry. They were told that the faculty received a letter via fax from the ministry in Riyadh that includes the names different from that which were published in the site and the newspapers. Their admissions were withdrawn just for they were Shiite despite they got highest marks as compared to the other students who were admitted in the faculty. Knowing all this, the 95 students began weeping and crying while some others suffered hysteria attacks.

The modification in names was made only in the faculty of Dammam where Shiites are in great number.

The students’ names are:

- Ibtisam Salman Ahmad Al-Modan
- Ibtehal Abdellah Mekki Al-Mohsin
- Shraf Kamal Mohammad Al-Warsh
- Ashwaq Khaled Ghanem Al-Ghanem
- Amani Sadek Jaafar Al-Dar
- Amal Zuhair Saleh Al-Gharib
- Amira Moussa Hussain Al-Amir
- Anhar Abd Allah Mohammad Al-Sadeq
- Ayaat Mohammad Abdullah Alabndi
- Iman Samir Abdullah Al-Qassaab
- Iman Abdalaziz Abdallatif Alaradi
- Iman Abd Allah Eissa Alhmaqi
- Iman Ali Hassan Alabndi
- Basma Yasin Mustafa Al-Yasin
- Bador Mohammad Abdullah Al-Abbas
- Hawra Saeed Ali Al-Shamr
- Horya Ali Hassan Al-Abbas
- Khadija Abdalmohsin Ali Al-Awed
- Khadija Ali Ahmad Al-Awa
- Doaa Sadek Jaafar Al-Dar
- Raeda Ahmad Abdullah Al-darora
- Rubab Abdalmalik Hassan Al-khonizi
- Reem Eissa Mansour Al-mari
- Reem Merza Ali Al-sarnokh
- Zahraa Ahmad Ali Al-Iabid
- Zahraa Jasim Ahmad Al-Marzouq
- Zahraa Habib Abd Allah Aldrorh
- Zahraa Saleh Radi Al-Hirz
- Zahraa Adel Salman Al-Hamad
- Zahraa Abd Rab Al-Rasoul Mohammad Al-Moallim
- Zahraa Ali Ahmad Al-Eid
- Zahraa Kazem Ali Al-Suwaylih
- Zahraa Mansour Salman Al-Hayek
- Zahraa Ali Mekki Al-Farid
- Zeinab Zakariya Ali Khamis
- Zeinab Said Jasim Bazboz
- Zeinab Abbas Abdullah Al-kabi
- Zeinab Ali Abbas Al-Hamd
- Zeinab Kamal Mohammad Al-Warsh
- Zeinab Muhsin Radi Al-Badrani
- Zeinab Mohammad Ibrahim Al-Fardan
- Zeinab Mohammad Abdullah Sandi
- Zeinab Naji Ali Al-Brahim
- Zeinab Nasser Jasim Qamber
- Zeena Ali Ahmad Al-Mobasher
- Sajida Shafiq Abdullah Al-sheyoukh
- Sara Ali Hussain Al-Ibad
- Sajoud Ali Ahmad Al-Abdal Aal
- Sakina Habib Qassem Al-Suleman
- Sakina Saud Abbas Baban
- Sharifa Fatah Allah Majed Al-Hashem
- Sherine Ahmad Hassan Al-Mutaz
- Akila Ahmad Hassan Iohid
- Akila Eissa Ahmad Al-Ahmad
- Fatema Ahmad Badr Al-masari
- Fatema Ahmad Abbas Al-Habib
- Fatema Hassan Maatuk Al-Eid

Note: Please send urgent letter to prince Abdullah in Riyadh on the issue

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