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Tag : Students iran

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 ...

April 14, 2009

Students Beaten and Prevented from Entering Noushirvan University in Babol

(14 April 2009) Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them in front of the campus on 13 April 2009, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

March 25, 2009

Hana Abdi

Hana Abdi (21) is an activist in Sanandaj and was arrested on 4 November 2007 by intelligence agents. Abdi was recently ordered to pay a fine of approximately $30,000 instead of serving 7 months in prison. ...

March 18, 2009

Ahmad Ghasaban

On May 3, 2007, security agents arrested Ahmad Ghasaban, editor of the student publication Sahar. He was conditionally released in August 2008 but was again detained on 24 February 2009 after a demonstration at Amir Kabir University. ...

March 18, 2009

Nariman Mostafavi

Nariman Mostafavi, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin prison and is under interrogation. ...

March 18, 2009

Mehdi Mashayekhi

Mehdi Mashayekhi, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin Prison and is under interrogation. ...

March 18, 2009

Abbas Hakimzadeh

Abbas Hakimzadeh, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin Prison and is under interrogation. ...

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 ...

January 25, 2009

Ronak Safazadeh

Ronak Safazadeh (21), arrested on October 9, 2007, is a women’s rights activist in Sanandaj. She has been sentenced to 9 months in prison and a $208 (2 million Rial) fine by the Public Court of Piranshar. ...

January 15, 2009

Detentions of Shiraz University Students Continue

(15 January 2009) – The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that Hamdollah Namjou and Alma Ranjbar students at Shiraz University were arrested at the Intelligence Office in Shiraz on 14 and 15 January , respectively, after being summoned on 5 January. Another ...

December 6, 2008

Situation of Academic Rights in Iran Appendices

Lists compiling detained, imprisoned, suspended and released students from March 2007 to December 2008. ...

November 3, 2008

Ebrahim Rashidi

Ebrahim Rashidi is a poet, writer and Mechanical Engineering graduate of Orumieh University. On 5 August 2008, he was sent to prison to begin serving his five-month prison sentence. ...

October 15, 2008

Ali Kantouri

Ali Kantouri, arrested on November 3, 2008, is a student activist. He is held in Evin prison. Kantouri and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide sweep between November 2007 and January 2008. ...

July 23, 2008

New Arrests Target Student Activists

(23 July 2008) Security and intelligence agents are engaged in an extensive campaign of arbitrary detentions targeting student activists around the country, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. During the past two weeks, the authorities have detained more than twenty students, seventeen ...

June 16, 2008

Former Student Detainees Terrorized by their Interrogators

(16 June 2008) Security and intelligence agents are regularly contacting and terrorizing nine former student detainees with threats of prosecution under the charge of apostasy that can result in execution sentences. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is gravely concerned about their security. ...

June 6, 2008

Groups Urge Iran to Cooperate with UN Rights Bodies

(Geneva, 6 June 2008) – The Iranian government should cooperate with United Nations human rights bodies in order to address the ongoing human rights abuses in the country, a group of international human rights organizations said today. The Iranian government’s refusal to implement recommendations issued by ...

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. ...

April 11, 2008

Students Resist Prosecution for Peaceful Protests

(11 April 2008) Students at Shiraz University are refusing to respond to summonses relating to their participation in peaceful protests in March. The students are reportedly outraged that the university administration is bringing charges of “causing rioting and chaos” against them. ...

March 15, 2008

Police Attack Shiraz University Seminar after Days of Student Protests

UPDATE: (15 March 2008) On March 11, Iranian authorities released four students detained on the previous Sunday during the violent police attack. The detainees were held at the Intelligence Ministry’s detention center in Shiraz. Special Forces beat the students as they detained them, but during ...

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