Annual Report

On the Human Rights Conditions  of Iranian Students

July 2005 to June 2006

Summary

The report was compiled based on news reports published in official media in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in order to shed light on the overall state of human rights for students in Iran.

Though this report was unable to document all violations incured (due to the Iranian regime’s practices of censoring the media and infringing on the operations of human rights activists), the report will clearly demonstrate that widespread and systematic violations of the human and civil rights of Iranian students by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran continues.

General outline of violations documented in this report:

1 - Interrogation by security organizations                                                               24 Cases

2 - Incarceration of students                                                                                   49     “

3 - Students summoned to Revolutionary and Public Courts                                    45    “

4 - Students tried by Revolutionary and Public Courts                                            36    “

5 - Judgments issued by Revolutionary and Public Courts                                       34    “

6 - Students summoned to Disciplinary Committees of Universities                          90    “

7 - Judgements issued by Disciplinary Committees of Universities                           54    “

8 - Student organizations closed                                                                             22    “

9 - Student publications closed                                                                               39   “

10- Student events prevented                                                                                 28    “

11- Students expelled from universities                                                                    4    “

 

Organizatons directly involved in suppression of student activities:

 

1- Police forces

2- Ministry of Intelligence and Security

3- Revolutionary and Public Courts

4- Security organizations of university campuses

5- Disciplinary Comittees of university campuses

6- Comittees to monitor student publications

7- Committees to monitor student organizations

8- Committees to monitor universities

9- Student militia organizations

 

Organizations whose law suits led to the trial, incarceration, expulsion, etc., of students:

 

1- University chancellors

2- University vice chancellors for student affairs

3- University militia organizations

4- Friday prayer leaders

5- Guardian Council

6- Ministry of Intelligence and Security

7- Voice & Vision Organization of Islamic Republic

8- Revolutionary Guards of Islamic Revolution

9- Islamic Societies of universities

10- Representatives of the Supreme Leader on university campuses

 

University Organizations that suppressed student activists:

 

1- Disciplinary Comittees of universities

2- Committees to monitor student publications

3- Committees to monitor student organizations

4- Committees to monitor universities

5- University security organizations

6- University Militia Organizations

7- University Chancellors

8- University vice chancellors for student affairs

9- Representatives of the Supreme Leader on university campuses

10- Islamic Societies of universities

 

Non-University Organizations that suppressed student activities:

 

1- Police forces

2- Ministry of Intelligence and Security

3- Revolutionary and Public Courts

4- Guardian Council

5- Friday Prayer Leaders

6- Revolutioary Guards of Islamic Revolution

7- Voice & Vision Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran

8- Ministry of Interior

9- Ministry of Science and Higher Education

 

 

 

IHRAG (Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America)

Phone: 1 - 514 - 365 9212 (Canada) or 46 -704 124 500 (Sweden)

http://www.hriran.org