(4 December 2010) The Iranian government should immediately end its policy of depriving university students of higher education based on their political or religious beliefs, and respect their freedom of expression and conscience, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today with the ...
The Campaign has interviewed 27 students and conducted source research in this comprehensive report on systematic discrimination and exclusion from higher education in Iran. The report includes a list of 217 students who were barred or expelled from university based on activity on campus, political ...
Next Section: Recommendations Human Rights Treaty Obligations Iran ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1975 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1975.1 Together, these treaties obligate the Iranian government to respect freedom of opinion, ...
Back to table of contents This is a partial list of students deprived of higher education in the past six years. The true numbers are believed to be much higher. During the past months, in addition to interviewing several barred university applicants, conducting extensive research, and ...
Next Section: List of 217 Barred and Expelled Students Back to table of contents To the Government of Iran: • Ensure students and university applicants can exercise their right to expression, association, assembly and religious freedom without interference by authorities and without having fear ...
Back to table of contents The Admissions Process and Systematic Banning of Students The Role of Disciplinary Committees In Their Own Words: Testimonies of Banned Students From Denial to Acknowledgment Recommendations Soon after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became President of the ...
After three decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s human rights record has generated notable concern amongst United Nations human rights bodies, international NGOs, foreign governments including Iran’s diplomatic partners, and a broad spectrum of Iranian civil society.1 Since the 2005 presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...
Next Section: Regulatory Framework for Denial of Education Back to table of contents Starring Gains Public Exposure In September 2006, a year after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election as President, a public controversy arose over allegations by some students that the Ministry of Science was depriving qualified applicants ...
Next Section: International Law Back to table of contents University Admission and Entrance Exams Iranians who want to attend a government university program (at the undergraduate or graduate level) must complete secondary school and take an entrance exam known as the concour.1 The concour is administered ...
Next Section: Background of Starred Student Controversy Back to table of contents Recourse Students who were deprived from education, whether starred, expelled, or among those who passed the entrance exam but were not allowed to register, told the Campaign that no procedures or independent bodies exist ...
Next Section: Recourse Back to table of contents Barring Baha'is In addition to students barred from education due to their social and political activism, Baha’i students have also faced expulsion and education bans due to their religious beliefs. Baha’i youth are forced to not specify their ...
Next Section: Barring Baha'is Back to table of contents Barring Student Activists Similar to Mahmoudian, Eliasi, and Jalili, students who have participated in political and campus-based activism were barred by the Ministry of Science from enrolling in university or continuing their education. The Campaign documented 215 ...
Next Section: Barring Student Activists Barring the Best and the Brightest: The Cases of Puyan Mahmoudian, Safoura Eliasi and Farzaneh Jalili When banning students from higher education, Iranian officials often target some of the most academically qualified and gifted students in their fields. Puyan Mahmoudian, despite ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Shahla Jahed was executed after spending eight years in Evin prison on charges of stabbing the wife of soccer star Nasser Mohammadkhani; Ebrahim Yazdi, an eighty year old activist, is still in prison as the Campaign calls for his ...
Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, Shahla Jahed’s lawyer, attended her execution this morning. “I just can’t believe it. I’m not feeling well. Shahla just kept crying; she didn’t say anything. I went forward and told her to talk, but she only cried. The victim’s family did not give ...
Reza Khandan, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his wife’s second trial session held on Sunday 28 November. “The situation in court didn’t feel terribly hopeful. Each side was just saying their own piece. ...
An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the family of journalist Nazanin Khosrovani who visited her in prison were told that she was banned from having visitors. Prison officials refused to provide any explanation about why Khosrovani could not ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “After the first court session, which was last week, we have not had any news from my wife. I only know that she is no longer on a hunger strike and ...
Five hundred days have passed since journalist Massoud Bastani was arrested and imprisoned. His wife, Mahsa Amrabadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she hopes her husband will be allowed furlough and that his situation will improve if a UN Human ...
A source close to journalist and prisoner of conscience Hengameh Shahidi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that because of Shahidi’s poor physical condition, she was admitted to Evin Prison’s infirmary. Hengameh Shahidi, who was released from Evin Prison for medical treatment ...
While judicial authorities refuse to provide any information pertaining to Mashad executions, Ahmad Ghabel, a theological researcher and prisoner of conscience, has to be accountable for speaking about the executions. Hadi Ghabel’s wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ghabel asked ...
Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represents the three American hikers told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he objects to the new date set for his clients’ trial, and that he has not been able to see his two clients in person ...
Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer representing the three American hikers, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran of his objections to the new date set for his clients’ trial and that he has not been allowed to see his two clients who remain in ...
(26 November 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release for medical treatment of Ebrahim Yazdi, who has been in detention since 1 October, but has yet to be informed of the charges against him. The Islamic Republic’s first ...
Father of Ali Gholizadeh, a member of Tahkim-e Vahdat Student Union who was arrested on 5 November at his home, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that in a short telephone call to his mother, Gholizadeh told her that he remains ...
