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Iran: At Least 150 Masters and Ph.D. Students Barred From Postgraduate Studies
- Sunday, 03 December 2017 03:32
NCRI Staff
NCRI - The state-run Jame’eh Farda (Tomorrow’s Community) newspaper
reported that at least 150 postgraduate students at Masters and Ph.D.
levels were starred (term used by the Iranian regime to bar protesting
students from continuing their postgraduate studies) in October this
year, saying that they received a message of “defects in their case” and
were deprived of access to the universities to continue their
education.
The newspaper wrote in an issue on Thursday, November 30, quoting “an
informed source” at the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology:
“In the new academic year, between 150 and 200 postgraduate students at
Masters and Ph.D. levels will not be eligible to register and remain
starred after completing the exam because of the defect in their case.”
In this regard, Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the regime's parliament
and a member of the parliament’s Education Commission, told the
newspaper that there is no accurate statistics and exact numbers of
starred students, adding: “At a meeting with the Minister of Science,
Research and Technology, he confirmed that the number of starred
students in the new academic year is more than 100 people.”
Starred students are referred to those students who are deprived of
continuing their education or expelled due to their student activities
or political views. The term starred student was used during the
regime’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for student activists in
different fields, and a star was placed against their names in the
reports provided by the evaluation (examination) organization, leading
to some deprivation and exclusions such as denial of education or
expulsion.
Meanwhile, Hassan Rouhani in his propaganda campaign in the 2013
presidential election promised to remove the stars and open up the
campus allowing these students to return to the universities. However,
Amnesty International wrote in a report about the “dire situation” in
universities years after Rouhani’s election.
Amnesty International said: “Hundreds of students are deprived of
their education, many of whom are still in prison.” According to Amnesty
International, after the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, a number of new
students have also been arrested.
According to the newspaper, the promise by Hassan Rouhani’s
government to stop depriving students of education was not fulfilled and
still on the ground. It seems that Rouhani's government not only has
not allowed these starred students to return to the universities, but
also his government deprived many new students of education despite
their academic and scientific qualification.
The state-owned newspaper added: “Some of the student activists who
followed the story of starred students said that some of these students
signed an agreement with their registration and their problem solved. We
asked Mahmoud Sadeghi (the MP) in this regard, and he replied: I do not
know the provisions of this agreement, and I cannot comment on the
contents of this article, but legally and in accordance with the law, if
this agreement (pledge) violates the freedoms and civil rights of
individuals, including membership in student associations, is not legal,
even if this pledge is signed by one's own consent, it has no legal
value, since it is prohibited by law to deny the individuals their
rights.”
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