#Student

Hamid Babaei

In Brief Status: Released In October 2019, Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege...

Yashar Darolshafa

In Brief Yashar Darolshafa, a graduate student of Sociology at Tehran University and the former secretary of the Islamic Reformist...

Giulio Regeni

In Brief Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student at Cambridge who was studying abroad in Egypt, disappeared on his way to a party in...

Nazimuddin Samad

In Brief Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old secular activist and law student at Jagannath University, was killed in Dhaka, Bangladeshi...

Iran's Denial of Adequate Medical Treatment to Political Prisoners Unacceptable

Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a group* of UN human rights...

Sudan Student Killing Sparks Wave of Protests in North Kordofan

Thousands of Sudanese students have entered their second day of protests following the death of a student in North Kordofan, central...

Family of Jailed Iranian Physicist Omid Kokabee Ask for His Release due to Cancer

Iranian physicist Omid Kokabee, who has been imprisoned in Tehran since 2011, is suffering from life-threatening kidney cancer, the...

Myanmar—Lin Htet Naing and Phyoe Phyoe Aung Released

According to Amnesty International, student leaders Phyoe Phyoe Aung and Lin Htet Naing (aka James and Aung Thant Zin) were released on...