Paramilitary Force Attacks Tehran University Protest Against Hijab Enforcement Units
Basiji agents attacked several students at a peaceful protest against a newly enforced strict hijab enforcement policy at the University of Tehran. Members of… ...
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May 13, 2019
Appeals Court Upholds Lengthy Sentence Against Female Activist for Criticizing Chief Justice
Number of Women Political Prisoners Rising in Iran May 13, 2019 – A Tehran appeals court upheld a 7.5-year prison sentence against prominent political activist Hengameh Shahidi based on her… ...
May 11, 2019
Tehran University Student Speaks Out Against “Virginity Tests,” Inhumane Interrogation Methods
Parisa Rafiei, a student at the University of Tehran, was pressured to take a “virginity test” while in state custody and then blocked from lodging a complaint against the inhumane… ...
May 9, 2019
Iran’s Minister of Education Sees “Plot” Behind Videos of Dancing Schoolchildren
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based… ...
May 8, 2019
Rouhani Official Met With Students Protesting Law That Criminalizes Social Media Activities
…1, 2019, where she had gone to hand out the government’s first Award for Citizens Rights. The students were protesting a new law that enables university authorities to punish students… ...
May 1, 2019
Security Forces Arrest Protesters in Front of Iran’s Parliament on Labor Day
A peaceful demonstration by people demanding workers’ rights in front of Iran’s Parliament in Tehran on International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2019, was violently repressed after police and plainclothes security… ...
April 29, 2019
Iran Sets Stage for More Crackdowns on University Students’ Online Activities
University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical” following the passage of an amendment to the Islamic Republic’s academic disciplinary… ...
April 17, 2019
Shiite Mystic Released from Prison in Iran After Serving Nine Years, Case Status Unclear
Editor’s Note: On April 24, 2019, Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told reporters that all outstanding sentences in Mr. Taheri’s case have been rescinded according to Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic… ...
April 10, 2019
University Student to be Flogged, Imprisoned for Insulting Supreme Leader
Supporters Barred from Court Room *Editor’s note: Mojtaba Dadashi was taken to prison in the city of Sabzevar on April 13, 2019, to begin serving a three-year sentence, a source… ...
April 1, 2019
“It’s an Insult:” Human Rights Attorney Condemns Iran’s New Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi
The appointment by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of a known human rights violator to head the country’s judiciary is a prelude to dark days ahead for human and civil… ...
March 28, 2019
Leave No Child Behind: Providing Inclusive Education to Children With Disabilities
The UN held a conference focused on improving access to inclusive education for children with disabilities on World Down Syndrome Day (2019)…. ...
March 18, 2019
Three Men Accused of Killing Anti-Drug-Trafficking Agents Executed in Eastern Iran
Majid Shoja, Police Chief Three prisoners accused of killing law enforcement agents during drug raids were executed in the eastern Iranian province of South Khorasan, according to a press release… ...
March 15, 2019
UN Expert Concerned by Crackdown on Protests and Strikes in Iran
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2017. Living conditions difficult for many Iranians Expert calls for release of… ...
March 8, 2019
Thousands of Iranian Teachers Launch Third Strike Demanding Fair Pay, Universal Education
Education Minister Claims Strikers Wrongly Teaching Students How to Protest Thousands of teachers went on strike throughout Iran for the third time in less than a year March 3-5, 2019,… ...
March 6, 2019
Iranian Belgian Academic Arrested in Iran on Unspecified “Security Charges”
A dual national academic who has taught at the University of Tehran and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium was arrested on “security charges,” a senior Iranian official revealed… ...
March 6, 2019
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When Iran blocked the internet, tech experts in the U.S. tried to hack a solution. Here’s why they couldn’t Los Angeles Times 17 December, 2019 -run network, said Amir Rashidi,… ...
March 5, 2019
Autistic Children in Iran Segregated and Punished for Having Learning Disabilities
Abdolreza Fouladvand, the head of the Education Department in Tehran Responding to news of an autistic child being treated inhumanely in a school, Iranian officials blamed the child and the… ...
February 22, 2019
Concert Cancellations Continue in Mashhad Due to Intolerance by Religious Conservatives
A concert by the popular Persian pop band Hoorosh was canceled by judicial order an hour before show time on February 20, 2019, in the city of Firouzeh, northeastern Iran,… ...
February 19, 2019
Choosing Raisi as Judiciary Head Will Be a “Catastrophe” for Justice in Iran
The appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, who participated in “death commissions” that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of prisoners in Iran in 1988, as Iran’s next head of the judiciary,… ...
January 19, 2019
Defense Lawyer Mostafa Tork Hamedani Sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment in Iran
Human rights attorney Mostafa Tork Hamedani has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Iran for allegedly slandering a former prosecutor, his lawyer Peyman Haj Mahmoud Attar announced on January… ...
January 18, 2019
Satirist Keyomars Marzban to Be Tried in Iran Under Hardline Judge Salavati
Iranian satirist Keyomars Marzban, who has been detained in Iran since August 2018, is due to face trial for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred”… ...
January 4, 2019
Labor Activist Smaeil Bakhshi Tortured by Agents of Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry
Held Without Access to Lawyer, Bakhshi Beaten During 25-Day Detention January 4, 2018—The beating and torture of the labor activist Smaeil Bakhshi (also spelled Esmail Bakhshi), while he was in… ...
January 4, 2019
Baha’i Woman Sentenced to 11.9 Years in Prison, Banned From University in Iran
Yekta Fahandej Sa’di was sentenced to 11 years and nine months in prison for her Baha’i religious beliefs by a preliminary court in the city of Shiraz in south-central Iran… ...
December 28, 2018
Outrage After Judicial Parliamentary Committee Rejects Bill to Ban Child Marriages in Iran
Two years after it was introduced to Iran’s Parliament, the parliamentary Committee for Judicial and Legal Affairs has rejected a bill to ban marriage for girls under the age of… ...
December 21, 2018
Law Student Begins Six-Month Prison Term for Social Media Posts Critical of State Policy
“They told me, ‘If you want to live in peace, stop writing, stop your activities.’” Amir Chamani Taken to Tabriz Prison, Lawyer Not Notified In a continuing assault on freedom… ...