Cartoon 17: Relief Operation, Iranian Style
In the early hours of August 23, 2012, security and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty-five volunteer students… ...
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August 25, 2012
IRGC Forces Stormed Earthquake Relief Camp, Confiscated Goods, Arrested Volunteers
At midnight on August 23, security and IRGC forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty five volunteer students and relief workers who… ...
July 12, 2012
Officials Should Stop Denying the Existence of Political Prisoners
(July 12, 2012) Iranian officials should cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights, the International… ...
July 3, 2012
Dissident Cleric Tortured and Prosecuted: “They Told Me ‘We Will Snatch Your Wife”’
Arash Honarvar Shojayee, a dissident blogger and cleric, returned to Evin Prison on Saturday, June 30, after his furlough leave ended. Hours before returning to prison, in an interview with… ...
May 31, 2012
Joint Statement on the Right to Education and Academic Freedom in Iran
…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…. ...
May 22, 2012
New Video Urges Support for Imprisoned Baha’i Educators
…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…. ...
May 17, 2012
Student Group Report Calls for End to “Educational Apartheid”
…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… ...
May 15, 2012
Iranian physicist sentenced to prison: Nature news and comment
(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… ...
May 2, 2012
VIDEO: Iran’s Future Held Captive
…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… ...
May 1, 2012
Prominent Lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Sentenced To Nine Years
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… ...
April 27, 2012
Cartoon 3: Iran’s Future Behind Bars
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April 26, 2012
Speak Out for Imprisoned Students
…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… ...
April 25, 2012
Imprisoned Student Beaten in Front of Parents
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… ...
April 11, 2012
Raising Their Voices: New Video of Iranian Views on the Military Option
(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… ...
March 12, 2012
Special Rapporteur Receives Widespread Support in Human Rights Council
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… ...
February 29, 2012
Women’s Dorm Searched at Allameh University
…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… ...
February 23, 2012
Kurdish Student Given Suspended Sentence
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… ...
February 21, 2012
Punishing Stars: Systematic Discrimination and Exclusion in Iranian Higher Education – Executive Summary
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,… ...
December 31, 2011
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December 23, 2011
Iranian Christian Journalist Discusses Government Campaign to Target Protestants
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… ...
December 14, 2011
Kurdish Students Released on Bail
…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)…. ...
November 10, 2011
Katayoun Shahabi and Mehran Zinatbakhsh Released
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… ...
November 4, 2011
UN Committee Says Iran Fails to Uphold the Majority of Civil and Political Rights
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… ...
November 2, 2011
Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”
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… ...
October 24, 2011
Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorates in Prison
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… ...