Background of Starred Student Controversy
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
(4 November 2010) The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, should immediately intervene with Iranian authorities to ensure the physical well being of detained human rights lawyer… ...
Joint Statement by Human Rights Groups (28 October 2010) In the light of the severity of the human rights situation in Iran, the Iranian authorities’ refusal to cooperate with existing… ...
The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran – Report of the Secretary-General I. Introduction II. Thematic issues III. Cooperation with international human rights mechanisms and the… ...
…Human Rights Center and member of the Baha’i Faith, was sentenced to 2 years in prison; the court date for the two American hikers remaining in Evin prison has been… ...
Jinous Sobhani, former secretary of Defenders of Human Rights Center was sentenced to two years in prison. She was convicted of “acting against national security.” A member of the Baha’i… ...
(1 October 2010) Nobel Peace Laureate and Iranian lawyer, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the International Commission of Jurists,… ...
Next: Iranian Officials’ Claims on Rights Issues: Myths vs. Facts Executions and Stoning Since last year’s disputed Presidential election, the Iranian government has instituted a hyped-up campaign of executions, virtually… ...
Next: Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed Back to Page 1 of Suggested Questions 8. Question on allegations of forced confessions Question: How do you respond to allegations by former… ...
…an arm of the Intelligence Ministry to prosecute prisoners; leaders of the Baha’i Faith in Iran are each sentenced to 20 years in prison sparking an international outcry; American hiker… ...
Following the sentencing of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran, Diane Ala’i, the representative of the Baha’i International Community told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that currently 47… ...
(10 August 2010) Seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community, each of whom has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on security, espionage and other crimes, should be freed… ...
Shortly after Iran announced that it had executed five Kurdish political activists on Sunday, I received an e-mail from a human rights campaigner in Tehran who knew one of them,… ...
Mehrangiz Kar writes of the peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa…. ...
To read letter in Persian click here Open Letter to Members of the UN General Assembly By Dr Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Advocate and 2003 Nobel Laureate 20 April 2010… ...
by Mehrangiz Kar As a guest scholar at Cape Town University, I have been studying South Africa’s peaceful transition from Apartheid rule to a democratic constitution with much curiosity. My… ...
Women’s and children’s rights activist Maryam Zia was released after three months in prison, after going on a hunger strike and being taken to the prison hospital. Zia’s sister confirmed… ...
Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) are virtually certain not to vote on a resolution dealing with the human rights crisis in Iran in the March Session… ...
(15 February 2010) Iran’s rejectionist initial response to recommendations by members of the international community to address grave human rights abuses during the UN’s Universal Period Review clearly demonstrates the… ...
(31 January 2010) Sixteen defendants currently facing a “show trial” in Tehran have been selected to intimidate specific groups of dissidents and pave the way for applying the charge of… ...
…based on evidence in the case and not the Prosecutor’s claims, the trial of the seven Baha’i leaders in Tehran should end with an acquittal of her clients, as there… ...