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Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent

Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent

December 13, 2022

Children Beaten on Streets and in State Custody, Assaulted in Schools December 13, 2022 – Children in Iran accused of supporting the country’s protest movement are being subjected to physical and psychological torture in Iranian custody as well as in their schools, according to interviews and ...

Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances

Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances

December 6, 2022

At Least 574 Known Students Arrested in Less Than Three Months, Actual Number Much Higher December 6, 2022 – Iranian police and state security forces have arrested at least 574 university students, according to research by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), since mid-September when anti-state protests broke out ...

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

October 24, 2022

Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown on protests that has seen hundreds killed, including children, more than 12,000 ...

Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings

Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings

October 13, 2022

Officials Paint Children as Enemies of the State, Claim They’re “Reforming” Kids At Least 28 Children Killed Since September 16, Reports Tehran-based Group October 13, 2022 – The arrests and interrogations of school children accused of joining nationwide protests in Iran and their detention in so-called “psychological ...

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

October 3, 2022

Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations  Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread to Over 100 Universities October 3, 2022—On Sunday night, October 2, 2022, after 15 days of nationwide protests in Iran following the death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa ...

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

June 27, 2022

Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has traveled travel to Tehran and issued multiple public ...

Mother of Detained Labor Rights Activist Calls for Daughter’s Freedom: “I Ask You All to Be Our Voice”

Mother of Detained Labor Rights Activist Calls for Daughter’s Freedom: “I Ask You All to Be Our Voice”

June 27, 2022

On May 9, 2022, Anisha Asadollahi and her husband, Keyvan Mohtadi, both labor rights activists, were arrested by security forces in Tehran after serving as translators for two French nationals who were arrested a few days later. Teachers in Iran had been waging large ...

Dozens of Teachers Arrested in Iran During Workers’ Day Protests

Dozens of Teachers Arrested in Iran During Workers’ Day Protests

May 2, 2022

Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ day, between April 28 and May 1, 2022, according to the Iranian Teachers Trade Unions Coordination Council (ITTUCC). Multiple activists from other labor sectors were also arrested or summoned in Iran ...

100+ Academics Across Globe Sign Letter Protesting Firing of Professors in Iran

100+ Academics Across Globe Sign Letter Protesting Firing of Professors in Iran

February 10, 2022

Professors “Unjustly Dismissed” from Iranian Institutions for “Political Reasons” Universities Not Escaping Intensifying Repression in Islamic Republic In yet another reflection of intensifying repression in the Islamic Republic, a large group of prominent scholars and academics from around the globe have written a letter in protest against the ...

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

February 3, 2022

Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on the country's burgeoning teachers' rights movement. A grassroots teachers’ rights movement is gaining steam in Iran, where large street protests by teachers are increasingly sprouting ...

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

December 13, 2021

Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...

Four Baha’is Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Trying to Access Higher Education

Four Baha’is Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Trying to Access Higher Education

October 14, 2021

Court Rulings Reveal Systematic Religious Discrimination The Baha’i faith community is one of the most severely persecuted religious minorities in Iran. Iran’s government is unabashed in its propagating of false narratives about the community and has for decades blocked Baha’is from obtaining prominent positions in Iranian society as well ...

Teachers in Iran Continue Protests Under New Raisi Government

Teachers in Iran Continue Protests Under New Raisi Government

September 16, 2021

With Iran’s new academic year, beginning on September 23, 2021, just around the corner, teachers have been protesting in front of Parliament and the Plan and Budget Organization in Tehran to voice anger and frustration over low pay and serious challenges including state repression ...

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

February 1, 2021

Suicides increased in Iran in 2020, according to state medical data. Blue-collar workers as well as students who’ve been disproportionately impacted by the country’s struggling economy dominated media reports of people taking their own lives. The victims include an 11-year-old boy in Bushehr, located on the Persian Gulf coast, ...

State’s Online Schooling During COVID-19 Is a Privilege Only for the Well-Off in Iran

State’s Online Schooling During COVID-19 Is a Privilege Only for the Well-Off in Iran

November 13, 2020

Teachers, Families and Students Struggle without Needed Technology in Iran’s Poorer Regions A new online schooling program created by the government to allow virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic will effectively remain a luxury for the well-off in Iran, as Education Ministry officials have shrugged off the inability ...

Two Honor Students, Violently Arrested, Still Detained Without Charge Six Months Later

Two Honor Students, Violently Arrested, Still Detained Without Charge Six Months Later

October 22, 2020

Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Under Pressure to Make Forced “Confessions”  Student Groups: Allegations Unfounded, State Building False Case Without Evidence Two honor students at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, who were both violently arrested by the security forces on April 10, 2020, have been in detention ...

Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist Facing Additional Years in Prison

Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist Facing Additional Years in Prison

June 24, 2020

Old Suspended Sentence Resurrected to Keep Esmail Abdi Behind Bars Imprisoned teachers’ rights activist Esmail Abdi, who has been serving a six-year prison sentence since 2016 for his peaceful teachers’ rights activism, is facing additional years in prison with the enforcement of a suspended sentence issued a ...

University Helped Build Sham Court Case against Young Student Activist, Source Reveals

University Helped Build Sham Court Case against Young Student Activist, Source Reveals

November 26, 2019

 Parisa Rafiei Loses Her Last Legal Challenge to Seven-Year Sentence for Peaceful Protest Parisa Rafiei, the young student activist who recently lost her last chance to have her seven-year prison sentence reviewed by Iran’s Supreme Court, was convicted based on reports that her own university submitted, a source with ...

Prisoner of Conscience “Not Heard From” Since Transfer to “Punishment” Unit in Adelabad Prison

Prisoner of Conscience “Not Heard From” Since Transfer to “Punishment” Unit in Adelabad Prison

July 19, 2019

After refusing to break his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hossein Sepanta was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s wing inside Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Fars Province, on July 10, 2019, on orders of the facility’s director, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “His cellmates ...

Rouhani Official Met With Students Protesting Law That Criminalizes Social Media Activities

Rouhani Official Met With Students Protesting Law That Criminalizes Social Media Activities

May 8, 2019

An adviser to President Hassan Rouhani was met with protesters at Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran on May 1, 2019, where she had gone to hand out the government’s first Award for Citizens Rights. The students were protesting a new law that enables university authorities to punish students ...

Iran Sets Stage for More Crackdowns on University Students’ Online Activities

Iran Sets Stage for More Crackdowns on University Students’ Online Activities

April 29, 2019

University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical” following the passage of an amendment to the Islamic Republic’s academic disciplinary regulations. “Publishing unethical photos or committing immoral acts in cyberspace and on information-sharing networks will result in disciplinary ...

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

February 27, 2019

Javaid Rehman was appointed as the third Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in ...

Student Activists Educate Iran’s President About Political Repression at University Campuses

Student Activists Educate Iran’s President About Political Repression at University Campuses

December 10, 2018

Four months after 19 university students in Iran were issued harsh prison sentences for attending protests, the country’s president declared that Iran’s “universities are the freest in the world.” “I don’t think there’s another ...

Two Academics Who Held Australian Postings Detained, Summoned in Iran

Two Academics Who Held Australian Postings Detained, Summoned in Iran

December 4, 2018

At Least Four Academics and One Scientist With Foreign Ties Detained in Iran Since 2016 *Editor's Note: This article was corrected on December 6, 2018, to reflect that Mohammad Jalal Abbasi was summoned, not detained. One Iranian demography expert who has held academic postings in Australia has ...

New UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman Requests Entry to Iran

New UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman Requests Entry to Iran

October 1, 2018

UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran break its 13-year ban on UN human rights experts visiting the country and allow him ...

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