Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row who went on a hunger strike on May 12, 2010 said, “I will continue my hunger strike until I die.” Habibollah Golparipour, a native of the Kurdish city of Sanandaj, was recently found guilty of Moharebeh by the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad and sentenced to death [...]
A number of students have been suspended from university for “one or two terms” because of their “improper Hijab” (Islamic attire); an Allameh Tabatabai University official announced. Mehr News Agency reported today that Ghader Parviz announced that “disregard” of warnings about “hijab” has led to the suspension of several students, the number of which he [...]
Iran’s Council of Defence of the Right to Education issued a statement to urge all students that have been suspended from university to contact the Council with their information for further action. Despite good performance in their exams, some student activists, who are referred to as “starred” students, were suspended from continuing their university education [...]
Iran’s Department of Statistics announced that 10 million Iranians live under the “Absolute Poverty Line” and 30 million live under the “Relative Poverty Line.” Adel Azar, head of the Department of Statistics, told ISNA that the budgetary system of Iran has no correspondence with the prevalent scientific systems of budgeting. He added that if the [...]
Tehran, May 28 – The hard-line government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again faces embarrassing controversy over the academic credentials of a top official. This time, it is Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, Iran’s first vice president, who claims a PhD that turns out to be from a Canadian school accused of being a diploma mill. This week the website Alef, [...]
Tehran, May 28 – Inmates of a prison cellblock in Karaj known as the “Doghouse” are harassed and tortured; their hands, feet or jaws sometimes broken in brutal treatment by the head of the unit, where they are sent for protesting, Iran Focus has learnt. Saman Mohammadian and Mohsen Bigvand, two of the Gohardasht Prison [...]
Tehran revolutionary court, has sentenced Ali Salem, leftist student activist to two years imprisonment. Ali Salem polymer graduate student at Amir Kabir University was taken into custody during the widespread arrests of leftist students on December 3 2009 and was later on released on bail. Socialist Students website reports, Ali Salem’s 2 years imprisonment sentence [...]
Kouhyar Goodarzi, human rights activist, on hunger strike and in solitary confinement, was transferred to the health clinic at Evin prison. According to reports by RAHANA, Kouhyar Goodarzi, the expelled student of Sanaati Sharif University was arrested on the 29th of Azar and has been in solitary confinement since, was transferred to the clinic at [...]
RAHANA is reporting that on his fifth day of hunger strike, Majid Tavakoli’s physical condition has deteriorated drastically as he remains in solitary confinement in ward 240 at Evin prison. Ali Tavakoli, Majid’s brother has informed RAHANA that due to Majid’s lung disease and the fact that he has not had any water in five [...]
