According to a report published by the Working Group for the Defense of Student Rights at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), at least six students have been sentenced to a one-semester suspension from study by the university's disciplinary committee in preliminary rulings.
Two other students at the same university have been verbally notified of a one-semester suspension without any written ruling being issued to them. Security and punitive pressures on students across various Iranian universities have intensified during the war involving the United States and Israel.
Some IUST students have faced written reprimands, and an even larger number remain blocked from accessing their Golestan portal despite the semester having concluded.
The Golestan portal is one of the primary and most comprehensive software systems for managing educational and student information in Iranian universities. Student sources state that the suspended students at IUST received these rulings without even a single defense hearing being held by the disciplinary committee.
According to these reports, IUST university officials acted extrajudicially and arbitrarily by receiving student defenses via email and, in many cases, proceeded to issue rulings without clearly explaining the charges or providing information regarding the contents of the case files.
