Twenty Iranian universities have announced that in the coming academic year, 40 departments will begin accepting only one gender of student.
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Iranian MP challenges award for jailed journalist
MP Fatemeh Alia says it is an “insult” to the people of Iran that jailed Iranian journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi is the 2011 recipient of the Hellman-Hammett award.
Iranian University Drops 13 Humanities Majors
Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, a top Iranian university, has eliminated 13 branches of the humanities, leaving only six branches of humanities studies for students to pursue in the coming academic year.
A Statement From Imprisoned Iranian Journalists on Reporter’s Day
A group of Iranian journalists and political activists have issued a statement from Evin and Rajai-Shahr prisons to commemorate Reporter’s Day observed in Iran on August 8th.
Photos: The underprivileged villagers in Kerman
The underprivileged people of Kahnouj and Ghaleh Jang villages located in Iran’s Kerman province grapple with unemployment and poverty. The living conditions in these villages is very primitive. The villagers suffer from lack of safe drinking water and other basic amenities.
Daughter of former reformist lawmaker murdered
The murder of Fatemeh Bagherinejadianfard, the daughter of a former reformist MP, has caused a stir in Iranian Parliament, with MPs calling for an immediate inquest.
UN special rapporteur : Iran must observe basic human rights
In a statement, published on official UN high commissioner for human rights on August 3, Ahmad sharid UN special rapporteur for Iran said: I presented a request to formally introduce myself and my plans to Iranian officials to investigate human rights violation in Iran.
Human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi and his mother have been arrested
Human rights activist and banned university student Kouhyar Goudarzi and his mother Parvin Mokhtare were arrested, according to several sources.
Siavash Eslami’s Lashing Sentence Carried Out
Siavash Eslami, a board member of Teachers Union in Sari, received 37 lashes according to a verdict handed down by the Appeals Court.
Iran’s rich eat ice cream covered in gold as poor struggle to survive
Gold-flecked ice cream wasn’t part of the picture that Shiite Muslim clerics painted during the Iranian Revolution, when they promised to lift the poor by distributing the country’s vast oil income equally across society.