(4 December 2010) The Iranian government should immediately end its policy of depriving university students of higher education based on their political or religious beliefs, and respect their freedom of… ...
The Campaign has interviewed 27 students and conducted source research in this comprehensive report on systematic discrimination and exclusion from higher education in Iran. The report includes a list of… ...
Next Section: Recommendations Human Rights Treaty Obligations Iran ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1975 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights… ...
Back to table of contents This is a partial list of students deprived of higher education in the past six years. The true numbers are believed to be much higher…. ...
Next Section: List of 217 Barred and Expelled Students Back to table of contents To the Government of Iran: • Ensure students and university applicants can exercise their right to… ...
Back to table of contents The Admissions Process and Systematic Banning of Students The Role of Disciplinary Committees In Their Own Words: Testimonies of Banned Students From Denial to Acknowledgment… ...
After three decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s human rights record has generated notable concern amongst United Nations human rights bodies, international NGOs, foreign governments including Iran’s diplomatic partners, and… ...
…as President, a public controversy arose over allegations by some students that the Ministry of Science was depriving qualified applicants of admission to graduate and post-graduate studies on political, ideological… ...
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… ...
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… ...
