Students

Massive student crackdown in Iran; plainclothes officers arrest around 50 students at Tehran University in an "ambulance"

Reports indicate widespread clashes and arrests of students during recent protests, with around 50 students in…

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Tehran University Security: 9 detained students released

The Student Union Councils news channel says that among the 40 to 50 arrests on Monday, November 15, some were sent to Fashafoyeh prisons…

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Dealing with students this time in cyberspace; Ministry of Health monitors students' activity on social networks

While the crackdown on student protests has intensified in recent months, this time the Ministry of Health announced that…

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Unemployment rate for Iranian university graduates is “twice that of illiterates”

A Labor Ministry official reported that the unemployment rate among Iranian university graduates is twice that of the illiterate. To…

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Sit-in at Tehran University to protest the exclusion of starred students from education

A group of Tehran University students in support of Soha Mortezaei, a student deprived of education, and in protest against the deprivation orders…

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Three-year prison sentence for a social media activist in Tehran's Shahriar district finalized

Mehrdad Mohammadnejad, an economics student at Islamic Azad University and a social media activist living in Shahriar, was sentenced to three years in prison. He was previously…

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Students stage protest rally at Tehran University as Rouhani delivers speech

Simultaneously with Hassan Rouhani's speech at the University of Tehran, a group of students from this university gathered in the courtyard of the university on Wednesday, October 14th…

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Strong criticism from 35 student organizations of corruption, injustice, and oppression

A number of student organizations across Iran have criticized policies based on “authoritarian interpretations” of freedom and religion. They say…

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