New Law Requires Teachers To Be “Evaluated” with Ideological Questions Every Year September 28, 2023 – A year-long state crackdown on civil society and dissent in Iran has been corroding the country’s education system, ...
At least 26 Professors Punished, Students Face Heightened Restrictions and Repression September 13, 2023 – One year after the inception of Iran's "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, research conducted by the Center for Human Rights in ...
At least a dozen student groups from universities across Iran have issued strong statements of support for fellow students who are facing severe persecution at the Art University of Tehran for peacefully protesting forced-hijab rules and punishments on campus ...
University Officials Are Committing Major Rights Violations, Say Students At Least 720 Students Arrested Since Protests Began in September 2022 June 1, 2023 – University students and professors in Iran are facing arrests, banishments and expulsions ...
Authorities Threaten Students, Families and Teachers While Refusing to Provide Transparent Investigations School Girls and Staff Describe Being Forced to Stay in Affected Buildings While Authorities Dismiss Concerns April 24, 2023 – Five months after the first report of a chemical attack on a girls’ school in Iran, students across ...
Arrests, Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protesters Reported by Eyewitnesses Government Dithers While Thousands of Schoolgirls Sickened Amid ongoing poison gas attacks reported at girls’ schools in dozens of cities in Iran, the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association (CCITTA) held nationwide protests in Iran on ...
Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the world’s top public health, children’s rights, and education-focused UN agencies—to ...
Unfettered Acts of Terror Against School Girls Raise Questions of Government Complicity School Girls Enthusiastically Participated in Major Anti-State Protests February 28, 2023 – Five months into Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, in which girls and women were among hundreds killed at nationwide, anti-state protests, at least one girl ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...