Blacklisted Tehran University Student Activist Detained Incommunicado
University of Tehran student activist Soha Mortezaei’s sign reads, ...
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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. ...
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 ...
December 21, 2017
Students Challenge Minister’s Claim That No One in Iran is Banned From University for Political Reasons
Majid Dorri(right) and Mahdieh Golru protesting in front of the Science Ministry in Tehran. A student who ...
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 ...
October 5, 2017
Rights Activist Barred from University Under Ahmadinejad Faces Same Roadblocks Under Rouhani
Mahdieh Golru: “I have lost hope along with the years of my youth.” Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has blocked formerly imprisoned civil rights activist Mahdieh Golru from attending Alzahra University...
August 1, 2017
Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights
Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. “Today [July 26], like ...
December 8, 2016
Expelled Student Activist Reminds Rouhani of Unfulfilled Pledge to Let Her Resume Studies
A women’s rights activist and former student who spent nearly two and a half years in prison for her peaceful activism has written an open letter to President Hassan Rouhani reminding him that he has ...
January 21, 2010
No Information About Detained Women’s Rights Activist
(21 January 2010) Iranian judicial and prison authorities have refused to release any information about charges against women’s rights activist Somayeh Rashidi (24), who was arrested on 19 December 2009, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today. During the past two months, over ...