Tehran University Student Launches Campus Sit-In Against Being Blacklisted for Activism
University of Tehran student activist Soha Mortezaei’s sign reads, ...
Tag : detained students
December 10, 2018
Student Activists Educate Iran’s President About Political Repression at University Campuses
Four months after 19 university students in Iran were issued harsh prison sentences for attending protests, the country’s president declared that Iran’s “universities are the ...
August 31, 2018
University Student Sentenced to Seven Years Imprisonment in Iran as Another is Ordered to Attend Friday Prayers
As Iran continues to imprison university students for attending protests, a judge in the city of Semnan, 140 miles east of Tehran, has ordered one to attend Friday ...
August 17, 2018
19 University Students in Iran Issued Long Prison Sentences as One More is Tried in Tehran
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2017. Media reported that illegal protest against the government is going on in most of the cities in Iran. ...
July 3, 2018
63 University Groups Slam Rouhani and Reformists For Crackdown on Students
Sixty-three student organizations from universities across Iran have issued a statement sharply criticizing President Hassan Rouhani for a crackdown led by his Intelligence Ministry on students who were arrested ...
June 14, 2018
University Student Activists Sentenced to Prison After Being Arrested by President Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry
University of Tehran student activists Sina Darvish Omran and Ali Mozaffari were each sentenced to eight years in prison on June 11, 2018, by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran for allegedly joining ...
March 5, 2018
41 Tehran University Students Facing Prosecution For Participating in December 2017 Protests
The Iranian Judiciary has opened cases against 41 students of Tehran University who allegedly participated in protests in the capital city in January 2018, the university’s Deputy Chancellor ...
December 8, 2017
Iran’s Student Movement Faces Roadblocks Under Rouhani Despite Election Campaign Promises
A Student Day protest at the University of Tehran. Protests were held at several Iranian universities on December 7, 2017, on ...
April 24, 2017
Student Arrested by Intelligence Ministry Held in Solitary Confinement Without Charge
Payam Shakiba, a political science graduate student at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 since his arrest by the Intelligence Ministry...
August 16, 2011
The Continued Arbitrary Detention of Kouhyar Goudarzi And His Mother
A relative of human rights activist and banned student Kouhyar Goudarzi, who was arrested and transferred to an unknown location on 31 July by unidentified forces, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about Goudarzi’s arrest. “Kouhyar was a guest at a ...
January 12, 2009
Six More Shiraz University Students Detained
(12 January 2009) Six more students from Shiraz University were detained, after they appeared at the Intelligence Office in Shiraz following official summonses, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today. The newly detained students are among 10 who were summoned on 5 ...