…Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, calls for Iran to uphold its obligations under international and domestic law and provide all students with the right to education and academic freedom…. ...
…teaching staff, created in response to the government’s ban on Baha’i students from Iranian universities. The BIHE has been the only university option for thousands of Baha’i students in Iran…. ...
…and discrimination against university students in Iran. The report notes that this practice has become a trend since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ascension to power, and has only accelerated since: “The educational… ...
(15 May 2012) Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years on Sunday for allegedly conspiring… ...
…This video stands in solidarity with a call by the Iranian student association Daftar Tahkim Vahdat and alumni association Advar Tahkim Vahdat, and Speak Out for Imprisoned Iranian Students, a… ...
Judge Salavati has upheld the nine-year prison sentence for prominent lawyer and distinguished human rights activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that… ...
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…along with numerous other groups, in a new campaign to call for the release of imprisoned students in Iran. The campaign, “Speak Up for Imprisoned Students,” is aimed at spreading… ...
The parents of imprisoned student Javad Alikhani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that they watched the guards at Evin Prison beat up their son. Authorities also… ...
(11 April 2012) Today the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a short video and accompanying letter-writing campaign featuring the viewpoints of eight prominent Iranians on the domestic… ...
Iranian Delegate Responds Angrily Without Addressing Report’s Content Head of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani delivers his opening statements at today’s Human Rights Council (Reporting… ...
…International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, authorities confiscated a student’s laptop computer following this illegal action, searched all the files on the device, and caused… ...
Branch One of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court sentenced Shirzad Karimi, a Kurdish university student and a member of the Kurdish Students Democratic Union, to four years in prison, suspended for three… ...
Since 2005, hundreds of students have been barred from higher education through this process. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran interviewed 27 students barred from higher education. Additionally,… ...
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The Farsi Christian News Network is an organization comprised of Iranian journalists disseminating information about Christians in Iran. (23 December 2011) As Christmas approaches this year, it appears that authorities… ...
…were released and only one of them is still in detention presently. The seven Kurdish students are all current and former members of the Kurdish Students Democratic Union (the Union)…. ...
According to a report by Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) website, Katayoun Shahabi, an Iranian documentary film distributor and Mehran Zinatbaskh, a documentary filmmaker, who were arrested along with several… ...
On 4 November 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its concluding observations regarding Iran’s record of upholding civil and political rights. The Committee, which is comprised of leading… ...
Following the sentencing of seven Baha’is associated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the Appeals… ...
A source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ali Tari was sentenced to 6 months in prison on 11 October 2011 when he appeared at Mati… ...
…documents the multi-faceted human rights crisis gripping Iran. It provides details of the persecution and prosecution of civil society actors, including political activists, journalists, students, artists, lawyers, and environmental activists… ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Naim Sobhani, son of Riaz Sobhani, an Iranian Baha’i imprisoned at Evin Prison for the past four months… ...
(19 September 2011) As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York, four New Yorkers who closely follow developments in Iran talk about why the Iranian people expect the media and UN… ...
To protest his conditions inside Babol’s Matikola Prison, imprisoned student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarked on a hunger strike on 31 August. Zahabian’s father, Hassan Zahabian, told the International Campaign for… ...
