Amnesty International New Report on Iran: Silenced, Expelled, Imprisoned - Repression of Students and Academics in Iran Published June 02, 2014
"Universities
are the voice of the people and that is why they try to silence them. A
former student at Amir Kabir University in Tehran and political
prisoner.” The new Amnesty International 117-page report on Iran,
published June 02, 2014 (Index MDE 13/015/2014), details the persistent
and deepening repression of students and academics in Iran’s system of
higher education based on gender, religious belief, and political
persuasion. It provides comprehensive recommendations including but not
limited to: Rights to Higher Education and Academic Freedom for
everyone, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Stop
Discrimination, Torture, and Execution. Click here for complete report. Please note our Local Group 139 has worked on some of these cases: Majid Tavakkoli, Bahareh Hedayat, Zia Nabavi and Omid Kokabee.
