Right to education and Right to Employment

Right to education


13 Zanjan Univ. students get suspended from univ.

Thirteen Zanjan University students were suspended for 14 semesters all together.
Three of the students identified as Massoud Heidarifar and Arash Ryeeji were suspended for one semester while Siamak Yaquti was sentenced to two semesters of suspension. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 27, 2009)

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Kurd student expelled because of activities of brother

According to reports from Piranshahr, a student identified as Edris Kamelan, who is in his third year studying engineering at the Orumieh University was summoned by the Protection Department of this university in the new academic year. It was announced to him that he is banned from continuing his studies because he helped his brother flee. (Sep. 29, 2009)

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Kermanshah students receive heavy disciplinary sentences for political activities

New (disciplinary) sentences have been issued for dissenting students of the Razi University in Kermanshah.
In the past months, dozens of students in this university were sentenced to heavy punishments in the Disciplinary Committee. Students have said that this new wave of summonses and sentences is unprecedented. (Nurooz Website – Sep. 29, 2009)

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Babol University students sentenced to heavy punishments for political activities

Even after a number of student activists in the Babol Industrial University were given heavy sentences by the Babol Revolutionary Court, student activists studying in this university and their families are still subjected to severe pressure.
A number of students were also summoned to the Intelligence Agency in this city. With the start of the new academic year, there is repressive atmosphere in the Babol Industrial University and student gatherings are severely controlled and monitored. According to students, plainclothes agents have also been seen patrolling the campus.
The Disciplinary Committee has also sentenced a number of students to suspension from education. (Amir Kabir Newsletter – Sep. 29, 2009)

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Officials pin bogus charges on student activists to lay ground for expulsion

According to reports, the 'case of masked men in (Tehran) Univ. dorms' has been opened by the Intelligence Agency in Tehran which comprises the names of 30 student activists who live in the Tehran University dormitories. These students are to be identified and introduces as the masked men (who attacked Tehran Univ. dorms on the first days of protests after elections which led to a number of student deaths) and be expelled from university. Their education files will initially be reviewed by the Intelligence Agency, and if they are not able to find an academic reason to expel them, this case will be put into action. ( Sep. 30, 2009)

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17 student activists in Kermanshah receive heavy punishments

In the second wave of summonses of students of the Razi University in Kermanshah, at least 17 other students received heavy punishments such as suspension from education, ban from using university facilities, and paying fines. (Nurooz Website – Oct. 1, 2009)


Right to Employment



Security forces beat reporters and cameraman with electric clubs

In a football match between Tehran's Esteqlal football (soccer) team and Mashhad's Abu-moslem team in Mashhad, the clashes between protesters and riot police reached the point where two reporters and a cameraman were beaten by security forces. These reporters were beaten so badly with electric clubs that they were taken to the hospital while unconscious. (Rooz Online – Sep. 27, 2009)

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Professors purged in universities by orders of Khamenei

After Khamenei stressed that the curriculum of social sciences has to be revised in all universities, a new wave of purges and changes has started in the Alameh Tabatabayi University in Tehran. According to this report, an informed source has said that five law professors, who specialized on the issue of human rights, have been banned from teaching in various ways.
The most important of these purges, is the purge of Doctor Mohammad-Reza Zia-Bigdeli, a leading International Law professor in Iran and the former head of the School of Law and School of Political Science at this university, who was forced into retirement and banned from teaching from the start of the new semester.
According to reports, university officials even banned a professor from teaching by charging him with immoral acts. (Green Wave of Freedom Website – Sep. 28, 2009)

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Workers' wages in Tehran factory not paid and their basic rights violated
A worker in the Punel Factory in Tehran's Pakdasht region said in an interview, "We have not received our wages for three months now and no one gives us any answers".
"We are under a lot of pressure in providing our daily needs. A new law has been enforced in which labor representatives have not vote in company matters and all the decisions are made by the head of the factory and the government. So, even when they make decisions that harm laborers, the workers have to obey. It is like the era of slavery and workers have no right to express their opinions", he added. (–Sep. 30, 2009)

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Suppression of religious and ethnic minorities

Dozens of Tehran Univ. students summoned to Disciplinary Committee for being Kurds
In the past few days, dozens of Kurd students were summoned to the Tehran University Disciplinary Committee. In a letter given to the students, this committee accused these students of taking part in the recent unrest and has summoned them for questioning.
According to reports, most of these students were not involved in any political activities in their time in university and did take part in the recent events at university. The only reason they were summoned to is because they are Kurds.