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Tag : tehran university

February 10, 2022

100+ Academics Across Globe Sign Letter Protesting Firing of Professors in Iran

Professors “Unjustly Dismissed” from Iranian Institutions for “Political Reasons” Universities Not Escaping Intensifying Repression in Islamic Republic In yet another reflection of intensifying repression in the Islamic Republic, a large group of prominent scholars and academics from around ...

January 18, 2020

“Feverish Climate” at Tehran University After Students Arrested in Dormitory Raid

University of Tehran personnel assisted a raid by state forces on a dormitory that resulted in at least eight students being arrested as they gathered for a protest, an eyewitness told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

January 15, 2020

Students Assaulted, Arrested in State Crackdown on University Protests

Eyewitnesses Report Heavy Paramilitary Presence, Internet and Phone Disruptions Protesters were physically attacked and arrested at universities in Tehran and other Iranian cities on January 14, 2019, the fourth consecutive day of protests that had erupted in ...

December 16, 2019

Blacklisted Tehran University Student Activist Detained Incommunicado

University of Tehran student activist Saha Mortezaei’s sign reads, ...

May 11, 2019

Tehran University Student Speaks Out Against “Virginity Tests,” Inhumane Interrogation Methods

Parisa Rafiei, a student at the University of Tehran, was pressured to take a “virginity test” while in state custody and then blocked from lodging a complaint against the inhumane practice, she revealed in an ...

December 10, 2018

121 Nobel Laureates Urge Khamenei to Free Imprisoned Dual National Ahmadreza Djalali

In an open letter published December 9, 2018, 121 Nobel Laureates have called on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to ensure that ailing Iranian Swedish dual national Ahmadreza Djalali, a physician and scholar who specializes in disaster ...

April 27, 2018

Indictments Issued Against Dozens in Connection With December 2017 Unrest in Iran

Students protesting in front of entrance to Tehran University. Some Charged with “Crimes Against National Security” “About 100 indictments” have been issued ...

March 19, 2018

Sentenced to Prison For His Political Views, Sadegh Zibakalam Decries Censorship in Iran

Sadegh Zibakalam is an Iranian scholar and political analyst. “They Should Come Out and Say There is No Freedom of Speech” Sentenced to 18 ...

March 8, 2018

Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country

Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami to leave Iran as she wishes and stop intimidating and harassing the ...

March 7, 2018

Outspoken Iranian Professor Fined as Noose Tightens Around Freedom of Speech in Universities

Sadegh Zibakalam, a Tehran-based reformist political analyst and academic known for his criticisms of Iranian state policies, has been fined for telling a foreign newspaper that the majority of Iranians do not ...

January 5, 2018

Reformist MP Enquires About Students Detained in Iranian Protests

Four Sufi Gonabadi Dervishes Detained Without Charge A member of the reformist women’s faction in Iran’s Parliament has publicly enquired about the condition of university students who were arrested since anti-state protests broke out in Iran ...

January 2, 2018

Casualties and Arrests Mount As Iranian Protests Continue

At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since a wave of protests hit several Iranian cities on December 28, 2017. The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned ...

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