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 ...
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June 21, 2016
Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights
ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed his ...
May 2, 2012
VIDEO: Iran’s Future Held Captive
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a video, Iran’s Future Held Captive, and accompanying letter-writing initiative today calling attention to the government’s intensified crackdown on Iranian campuses. This video stands in solidarity with a call by the Iranian student association Daftar Tahkim ...
December 14, 2010
Majid Tavakoli’s Family Unable to Visit Him Due to Distance
The family of Majid Tavakoli, an imprisoned student who was arrested on National Student Day 2009 (7 December) at Amirkabir University of Technology, has not received any news from him for several months. His family lives in the city of Shiraz and has been ...
September 21, 2010
Ahmadinejad’s Media Blitz Unfolds as Young Activists Receive Harsh Sentences
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 journalists received harsh jail sentences in recent days, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
August 4, 2010
Release Prisoners of Conscience on Hunger Strike
(4 August 2010) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release seventeen prisoners of conscience who have been on hunger strike for the past ten days and whose health is deteriorating daily, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The seventeen prisoners include prominent student ...
April 29, 2009
Judge Accuses Eight Detained Students of Cooperation with Terrorist Organization Mojahedin-e Khalgh
(29 April 2009) The Deputy of the Security Prosecution Court, Judge Haddad, announced in a 28 April 2009 interview with the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) that eight detained students have been charged with cooperating with the Mojahedin-e Khalgh (MEK), which is considered to be ...
March 18, 2009
Majid Tavakoli
Majid Tavakoli, arrested on May 9, 2007, is a student at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University and a member of the central council of the university’s Islamic Association. After being released in August 2008, Tavakoli was arrested again on 5 February 2009 after attending a ceremony ...
February 21, 2009
Lives of Four Students on Hunger Strike Are at Risk
(21 February 2009) The lives of four Amirkabir University students, Majid Tavakoli, Hossein Torkashvand, Esmaiel Salmanpour and Kourosh Daneshyar, who went on hunger strike to protest their arbitrary detention, are at risk. The students should be released immediately and unconditionally, the International Campaign for Human ...
April 20, 2008
Judiciary Must Review the Sentencing of Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban
(20 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to the head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to review the sentencing by an appeals court of three students, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban to prison terms. ...