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… ...
Next Section: Barring Student Activists Barring the Best and the Brightest: The Cases of Puyan Mahmoudian, Safoura Eliasi and Farzaneh Jalili When banning students from higher education, Iranian officials often… ...
(26 November 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release for medical treatment of Ebrahim Yazdi, who has been in detention since 1 October,… ...
…Gholizadeh, Mohsen Barzegar, Alireza Kiani, and Mohammad Heydarzadeh, have been transferred to Evin prison. All four are students at university. The source told the Campaign that the prosecutor in Babol… ...
An informed student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that two Mazandaran Province political student activists were expelled from university. The students are Kaveh Daneshvar, a… ...
Blogger and high school student Navid Mohebbi’s remains in solitary confinement thirty-five days after his arrest pending clarification of his case, a local source told the International Campaign for Human… ...
As judicial and security pressures on lawyers from Defenders of Human Rights Center continue, lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been summoned to the Revolutionary Court’s Branch 15, immediately after Mohammad… ...
Following the sentencing of prisoner of conscience Heshmatollah Tabarzadi to nine years in prison, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his father’s sentencing has… ...
A friend of student activist Zia Nabavi, who is now exiled to a prison in Ahvaz, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during a recent telephone… ...
This report presents information about compliance by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) with its obligations as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Following introductory… ...
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran’s respect for human rights and freedoms during his current New York media blitz, several prominent young Iranian students, human rights defenders, and… ...
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… ...
Page 2 of Suggested Questions 1. Question on former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Question: Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been indicted by a special Judges Court within the Iranian… ...
Next: A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s coming visit to New York, for the opening of the 65th session of the United Nations’ General… ...
In the Name of God Ayatollah Khamenei The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran During one of my days in detention at Evin prison, I had the opportunity to… ...
(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… ...
On the anniversary of Iranian elections, two students of human rights were arrested in Beijing outside the Iranian Embassy as they carried a sign that read: “Free Iran, say NO… ...
…Human Rights in Iran has interviewed one of these students about summonses to the University’s Disciplinary Committee and the deprivation of education in the cases of at least nine students…. ...
In the weeks leading up to the first anniversary of the June 2009 presidential election, dozens of journalists and political, student, and civil society activists were arrested or summoned and… ...
Eyewitnesses have told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Basij forces had a widespread presence in Tehran and other cities such as Mashad, during a fresh wave… ...
Eye witnesses told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Basij forces had a widespread presence in Tehran and other cities such as Mashad during a fresh wave… ...
(Blog-Report from Inside Prison)- Evin Prison’s Ward 350, or Correctional Facility 3, which houses political prisoners has turned into the most crowded corner of the prison post-elections, suffering from poor… ...
