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Tag : student activists

July 13, 2018

Iran is Imprisoning University Students Accused of Attending Protests

The number of students being prosecuted for allegedly joining Iran’s December 2017/January 2018 protests is much higher than earlier estimates according to a well-known reformist lawmaker. “A list has been put together of the students detained in ...

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 ...

October 24, 2017

Students, MPs Protest Against Rouhani’s Conservative Nominee for Iran’s Science Ministry

Students protest against President Rouhani’s nominee to head the Science Ministry, ...

September 19, 2017

Pro-Rouhani Activist Arrested on Heels as Iranian President’s Trip to New York for the UNGA

Update: Siavash Hatam was released on bail on September 27, 2017, 10 days after he was detained. Siavash Hatam, who has served time as a political prisoner for engaging in ...

April 24, 2017

University Student Groups Decry Security Climate on Campus, Rising Costs and Gender Segregation

Seventy-two student organizations from universities throughout Iran have issued a joint statement asking President Hassan Rouhani to end the security climate on campuses, halt the rising cost of education, ...

August 2, 2016

Ninety-two Student Groups in Iran Criticize Rouhani for Unfulfilled Promises

Ninety-two university student groups have issued a joint letter to President Hassan Rouhani criticizing the persistent “atmosphere of fear and intimidation” in Iran’s universities following a spate of ...

January 6, 2016

Judiciary Claims No Knowledge of Student Not Heard from Since His Arrest Almost 17 Years Ago

The mother of a student who has not been heard from since soon after his arrest in Tehran in 1999 has dismissed the Iranian Judiciary’s claim that there was no evidence he was ever arrested. Saeed Zeinali ...

September 4, 2015

Keeping Activist Bahareh Hedayat in Prison is Against the Law Says Legal Expert

Political motivations are taking precedence over the law when it comes to activists such as Bahareh Hedayat, who is being kept in prison despite the completion of her sentence, legal expert Mohammad Oliaei-Fard told the International ...

September 4, 2015

Cartoon 122: Two More Years for Bahareh

The student and women’s rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, imprisoned for over five years in Iran, has been given an additional two-year prison sentence, days after receiving release orders from an Appeals Court in Tehran. This is ...

August 28, 2015

Prominent Women’s Rights Activist Held Illegally after Completion of Sentence

Bahareh Hedayat Given Two Additional Years in Prison after She Was Due for Release August 28, 2015—The student and women's rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, imprisoned for over five years in Iran, has been given an additional two-year ...

August 13, 2015

Ailing Student Activist’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws

Bahareh Hedayat’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws Prominent student activist Bahareh Hedayat should have been released by the end of July 2015 ...

April 11, 2014

Imprisoned Student Maryam Shafipour Refused Medical Treatment

Maryam Shafipour A source close to the family of imprisoned student activist Maryam Shafipour told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that judicial authorities have refused the ...

May 31, 2012

Joint Statement on the Right to Education and Academic Freedom in Iran

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joins 16 other student and human rights organizations in a statement expressing deep concern for the right to education and academic freedom in Iran. The statement, addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the Ministry of Science, ...

May 17, 2012

Student Group Report Calls for End to “Educational Apartheid”

The Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), also known as the Council for Defending the Right to Education, has published a new report detailing the increasing persecution of and discrimination against university students in Iran. The report notes that this practice has become ...

September 16, 2011

Young Political Activist Receives 50 Lashes for Blogging

Somayeh Tohidlou, political activist and Tehran University Ph.D. student in Sociology, wrote in her blog yesterday that authorities at Evin Prison carried out her sentence of 50 lashes. The flogging took place at ...

August 15, 2011

500 Days In Prison Without Furlough for Human Rights Activist

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, father of Mehdi Khodaee said that 500 days after his son’s arrest, he has not been allowed a single day of furlough. “After my son’s arrest in March 2010, I repeatedly appeared at ...

March 10, 2011

Increased Pressure on Activists in Babol: Forced Confessions, Mistreatment, and Torture

A local source in Babol told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that several activists arrested in the northern city during recent protests on 14 and 20 February have been released from prison, though the status of many detainees is still unknown. Those ...

January 13, 2011

Imprisoned Female Student Activists Denied Visitation Rights Again

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mehdi Lalipour, husband of imprisoned student activist and member of the Right to Education Council, Mahdieh Golroo, said that starting this week, both Golroo and Bahareh Hedayat have been barred from having visitors ...

December 4, 2010

Barring Students from Higher Education on Political and Religious Grounds

(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 expression and conscience, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today with the ...

November 5, 2010

Mashad Student Activist Ali Gholizadeh Arrested

Ali Gholizadeh, a student activist, was arrested by authorities last Friday in his father’s home. The news of his arrest was confirmed by his mother in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Gholizadeh is a member of Daftar Tahkim-e Vahdat ...

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 ...

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