Student movement

Sahar Mousavi, student activist detained

GVF — Former student activist Sahar Mousavi has been detained.

GVF — Omid Rezaei, a student activist from Gilan University has reportedly been arrested.

Government to 'immediately' cut funding to dissident students abroad, says Iran minister

GVF — The Iranian government will cut funding to students studying abroad should they develop ties to the opposition Green Movement, the country’s Minister of Science, Research, and Technology said on Sunday.

'Pattern of systemic violations of fundamental rights'

Damning UN report on Iran human rights

GVF — The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, has submitted a damning report regarding the Iranian regime’s wide-ranging human right abuses, including the continued house arrest of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.

Another student lashed for 'insult' to Ahmadinejad

GVF — An Iranian student was lashed thirty times today for having allegedly insulted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian lashed 74 times for 'insult' to Ahmadinejad

An Iranian student activist has been lashed 74 times for insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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.

Student activist in solitary confinement on hunger strike

To protest his conditions inside Babol’s Matikola Prison, imprisoned student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarked on a hunger strike on 31 August. Zahabian’s father, Hassan Zahabian, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that prison staff moved his son to solitary confinement after he began his hunger strike, even though, according to other prisoners, he was in a coma.

Cultural activists rounded up in west Gilan province and Sardasht

Twelve cultural and student activists have been rounded up in the towns of West Gilan, West Eivan and Kermanshah in Iran’s northern province of West Azerbaijan.

Student activist Ashkan Zahabian remains in solitary confinement

A source close to the case of student activist Ashkan Zahabian told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the prisoner of conscience recently met with his parents while under security supervision. Due to the presence of security forces, Zahabian did not discuss his charges with his parents.