Kianush Faried is a London-based correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Behrouz Chamanara, a professor at Kurdistan University in western Iran, was arrested, interrogated, and ultimately dismissed after the authorities suspected he and other professors were pushing students to participate in antiestablishment protests.
Iranian authorities have arrested at least three political activists who spoke at a Clubhouse event during which rights advocates, political prisoners, and academics called for a transition to a new, democratic political system.
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to one year in prison after being convicted of "spreading propaganda" against the Islamic republic, a charge that is often brought against intellectuals and critics of the Iranian establishment.
